Preface 1. Thinking as a Form of Skill 2. Thinking within Closed Systems- 1 Interpolation 3. Thinking within Closed Systems-2 Extrapolation 4. Thinking within Closed Systems- 3 Evidence in Disguise 5. Theoretical 6. Adventurous Thinking- 1 Two Transitional Experiments 7. Adventurous Thinking- 2 The Thinking of the Experimental Scientist 8. Adventurous Thinking- 3 First-Hand about Experimental Thinking 9. Adventurous Thinking- 4 Everyday Thinking 10. Adventurous Thinking- 5 The Artists Thinking Index
Biography
Sir Frederic Bartlett was a British psychologist best known for his studies of memory.
Reviews of the original publication:
‘This highly readable little book represents another example of the characteristically British trait of performing interesting psychological research with relatively simple methods, in contrast to the American trend toward increasing dependence on complex mathematical and electronic techniques. It reports the outcome of 25 years of Bartlett's own thinking about thinking and is intended to be neither an exhaustive survey of the field nor the final report of an organized research program… Thinking will undoubtedly be most useful to those who are active in this line of research, as a stimulant for new ideas, although it is sufficiently non-technical for the interested layman.’
- William F. Battig, Science, Vol. 128, No. 3334
