Higher Mental Processes
Published on 1. November 2015
217 pages
978-0-252-09811-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this new ebook, Robert W. Proctor curates a collection of celebrated and seminal articles from the past 125 years of The American Journal of Psychology . The debut volume in the University of Illinois Press's Common Threads ebook series, Higher Mental Processes reprints a suite of ten articles on processes of higher-order thinking. Proctor, current editor of the AJP , begins the volume with a special introduction that provides historical and scientific context for the contributions.
Contributors: P. Baratta, M. H. Birnbaum, M. E. Bulbrook, L. S. Buyer, R. A. Carlson, S. N. F. Chant, A. A. Cleveland, T. D. Cutsforth, R. L. Dominowski, E. Galanter, P. N. Johnson-Laird, M. G. Preston, Robert W. Proctor, and J. Tagart.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- ROBERT W. PROCTOR, editor of The American Journal of Psychology. Introduction
- R. A. CARLSON. The higher mental processes in The American Journal of Psychology. Vol. 125 (2012)
- REASONING
- T. D. CUTSFORTH. Synaesthesia in the process of reasoning. Vol. 25 (1924)
- P. N. JOHNSON-LAIRD AND J. TAGART. How implication is understood. Vol. 82 (1969)
- S. N. F. CHANT. An objective experiment on reasoning. Vol. 45 (1933)
- JUDGMENT AND DECISION
- M. G. PRESTON AND P. BARATTA. An experimental study of the auction-value of an uncertain outcome. Vol. 61 (1948)
- E. GALANTER. Utility functions for nonmonetary events. Vol. 103 (1990)
- M. H. BIRNBAUM. Base rates in Bayesian inference: Signal detection analysis of the cab problem. Vol. 96 (1983)
- PROBLEM SOLVING
- M. E. BULBROOK. An experimental study into the existence and nature of "insight." Vol. 44 (1932)
- R. L. DOMINOWSKI AND L. S. BUYER. Retention of problem solutions: The re-solution effect. Vol. 113 (2000)
- A. A. CLEVELAND. The psychology of chess and of learning to play it. Vol. 18 (1907)
