Human Thinking - The Basics

Human Thinking: The Basics provides an essential introduction into how we develop thoughts, the types of reasoning we engage in, and how our thinking can be tailored by subconscious processing.

List of contents

Part 1: Thinking: what is it and where does it come from?
1. What is ‘thinking’?
2. Evolution of thinking
Part 2: Thinking as reasoning
3. Problem-solving
4. Rational thinking
Part 3: When thinking goes awry
5. Biases, errors, and heuristics
6. Society made me do it
7. The confabulating mind
Part 4: Motivated Cognition
8. Mistaken beliefs about the world
9. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing like the truth
10. Magical thinking

About the author

S. Ian Robertson gained his PhD from the Open University, UK, on ‘Problem Solving from Textbook Examples’. He has published work on portable computing as well as articles and books on problem solving. He was the Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Bedfordshire from 2001 to 2014 when he retired.

Summary

Human Thinking: The Basics provides an essential introduction into how we develop thoughts, the types of reasoning we engage in, and how our thinking can be tailored by subconscious processing.

Product details

• Authors: S. Ian Robertson, Robertson S. Ian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2020
• EAN: 9780367360702
• ISBN: 978-0-367-36070-2
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: BASICS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology