Perspectives on thinking and reasoning : essays in honour of Peter Wason / edited by Stephen E. Newstead and Jonathan St. B. T. Evans.

Other author Wason, P. C. (Peter Cathcart)
Other author Newstead, Stephen E.
Other author Evans, Jonathan St. B. T., 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoHove : Erlbaum Associates, ©1995.
Descriptionx, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Wason, P. C. (Peter Cathcart)
Thought and thinking.
Reasoning (Psychology)

Contents Creating a psychology of reasoning: the contribution of Peter Wason / Jonathan St.B.T. Evans and Stephen E. Newstead -- The effects of rule clarification, decision justification, and selection instruction on Wason's abstract selection task / Richard A. Griggs -- Content effects in Wason's selection task -- Roger L. Dominowski -- Pragmatic reasoning about human voluntary action: evidence from Wason's selection task / Keith J. Holyoak and Patricia W. Cheng -- Deontic reasoning / Ken I. Manktelow and David E. Over -- Inference and mental models / Philip N. Johnson-Laird -- Relevance and reasoning / Jonathan St.B.T. Evans -- The abstract selection task: thesis, antithesis, and synthesis / David W. Green -- Finding logic in human reasoning requires looking in the right places / David P. O'Brien -- Hypothesis testing / Michael E. Gorman -- Scientific reasoning / Ryan D. Tweney and Susan T. Chitwood -- The THOG problem and its implications for human reasoning / Stephen E. Newstead, Vittorio Girotto, and Paolo Legrenzi -- Creativity in research / Peter Wason.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCNgb 95067467
ISBN0863773583 :

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Joyner General Stacks BF441 .P47 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold