1st Edition
Human Reasoning The Psychology Of Deduction
320 Pages
by
Psychology Press
320 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Deductive reasoning is widely regarded as an activity central to human intelligence, and as such has attracted an increasing amount of psychological study in recent years. In this first major survey of the field for over a decade, the authors provide a detailed and balanced review of all the main kinds of deductive reasoning task studied by psychologists. Topics covered include conditional and... Read more
Conditional reasoning; theories of propositional reasoning - rules versus models; the Wason selection task; disjunctive reasoning; relational inferences; syllogistic reasoning; reasoning with quantifiers - beyond syllogisms.
Biography
Byrne, Ruth M.J.; Evans, Jonathan St.B.T.; Newstead, Stephen E.
'We have here a much-needed comprehensive review of a major area in research on human thinking197deductive reasoning...For cognitive scientists, this book is a "must". For those outside of cognitive science, it provides a very accessible account of the fascinating search for an understanding of deductive reasoning, an activity central to human intelligence. The book reads like an intriguing mystery that has several subplots that are never quite resolved, and their presence leaves the reader wanting to know more.' - Richard Griggs (University of Florida) in American Scientist.
'A highly accessible, theoretically neutral, review of the research into deductive reasoning, comprehensive in its scope, covering four major theoretical perspectives: formal inference-rule theories, mental model theories, theories base on domain-sensitive rules, and theories incorporating heuristic and bias formulations.' - S. Hensch, (University of Wisconsin Centers, Marshfield) in Social & Behavioral Sciences.
