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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general
audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a
Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman's
work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of
the dangers of trusting to intuition - which springs from "fast"
but broad and emotional thinking - rather than engaging in the
slower, harder, but surer thinking that stems from logical,
deliberate decision-making. Written in a lively style that engages
readers in the experiments for which Kahneman won the Nobel,
Thinking, Fast and Slow's real triumph is to force us to think
about our own thinking.
Albert Bandura is the most cited living psychologist, and is
regularly named as one of the most influential figures ever to have
worked in his field. Much of his reputation stems from the theories
and experiments described in his 1973 study Aggression: A Social
Learning Analysis - a book that is both a classic of psychological
study and a masterclass in the analytical skills central to good
critical thinking. Bandura's central contention is that much human
learning is fundamentally social. As children imitate the behavior
of those around them, and as their behaviors are reinforced by
modelling, they entrench cognitive functions that more or less
become part of their core personalities. The experiments that
Bandura designed in order to prove his contentions with regard to
learned aggressive tendencies show the powers of critical thinking
analysis and evaluation at their best. Having set up a play
environment for children in which they could be exposed to
aggressive behavior (inflicted on a bobo doll), he was able to
systematically examine their responses and learned behaviors,
working out their functions and understanding the relationships
between different aspects of behavior that combined to form a
whole. Carefully evaluating at each stage the different extent to
which children's own aggressive behavior was affected by and
modelled on what they saw. Bandura produced results that
revolutionized psychology's whole approach to human learning and
behavior.
Albert Bandura is the most cited living psychologist, and is regularly named as one of the most influential figures ever to have worked in his field. Much of his reputation stems from the theories and experiments described in his 1973 study Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis – a book that is both a classic of psychological study and a masterclass in the analytical skills central to good critical thinking. Bandura’s central contention is that much human learning is fundamentally social. As children imitate the behavior of those around them, and as their behaviors are reinforced by modelling, they entrench cognitive functions that more or less become part of their core personalities. The experiments that Bandura designed in order to prove his contentions with regard to learned aggressive tendencies show the powers of critical thinking analysis and evaluation at their best. Having set up a play environment for children in which they could be exposed to aggressive behavior (inflicted on a bobo doll), he was able to systematically examine their responses and learned behaviors, working out their functions and understanding the relationships between different aspects of behavior that combined to form a whole. Carefully evaluating at each stage the different extent to which children’s own aggressive behavior was affected by and modelled on what they saw. Bandura produced results that revolutionized psychology’s whole approach to human learning and behavior.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general
audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a
Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman's
work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of
the dangers of trusting to intuition - which springs from "fast"
but broad and emotional thinking - rather than engaging in the
slower, harder, but surer thinking that stems from logical,
deliberate decision-making. Written in a lively style that engages
readers in the experiments for which Kahneman won the Nobel,
Thinking, Fast and Slow's real triumph is to force us to think
about our own thinking.
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