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Evolution and the psychology of thinking [electronic resource] : the debate / [edited by] David E. Over.

Contributor(s): Series: Current issues in thinking & reasoningPublication details: New York : Psychology Press, 2003.Description: vii, 246 pISBN:
  • 9780203641606
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No title; No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
Introduction: The evolutionary psychology of thinking / David E. Over -- The allocation system : using signal detection processes to regulate representations in a multi-modular mind / Gary L. Brase -- Is there a faculty of deontic reasoning? : a critical reevaluation of abstract versions of the Wason selection task / Laurence Fiddick -- Evolutionary psychology's grain problem and the cognitive neuroscience of reasoning / Anthony P. Atkinson and Michael Wheeler -- Specialised behaviour without specialised modules / Amit Almor -- From massive modularity to metarepresentation : the evolution of higherc ognition / David E. Over -- Probability judgment : from the inside and out / Steven Sloman and David E. Over -- Evolutionary versus instrumental goals : how evolutionary psychology misconceives human rationality / Keith E. Stanovich and Richard F. West.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and indexes.

Introduction: The evolutionary psychology of thinking / David E. Over -- The allocation system : using signal detection processes to regulate representations in a multi-modular mind / Gary L. Brase -- Is there a faculty of deontic reasoning? : a critical reevaluation of abstract versions of the Wason selection task / Laurence Fiddick -- Evolutionary psychology's grain problem and the cognitive neuroscience of reasoning / Anthony P. Atkinson and Michael Wheeler -- Specialised behaviour without specialised modules / Amit Almor -- From massive modularity to metarepresentation : the evolution of higherc ognition / David E. Over -- Probability judgment : from the inside and out / Steven Sloman and David E. Over -- Evolutionary versus instrumental goals : how evolutionary psychology misconceives human rationality / Keith E. Stanovich and Richard F. West.

Also available in print edition.

Electronic reproduction. [London, Eng. : Taylor and Francis, 2010]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.

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