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  • Psychorhetoric and the Psychology of Thought

    by Laura Macchi ...
    How can a particular way of argumenting direct our thinking? How does the formulation of a question influence the answer, producing a bias or an insight? And finally, what effect does public communication have on public behaviour?Psychorhetoric and the Psychology of Thought illustrates the role played by rhetoric and communicative heuristics in the psychology of thinking and decision making, and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Insight and Creativity in Problem Solving

    Edited by Kenneth J. Gilhooly, Linden J. Ball, Laura Macchi ...
    Series series Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning
    To date we have only a fragmentary understanding of the thought processes that engender insightful solutions to problems that require a change in representation or the discovery of distant associations to presented information. We likewise have only a piecemeal understanding of the thinking that underpins creative problem solving, where solutions are needed that are new to the solver. Recently ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality

    Edited by Laura Macchi, Maria Bagassi, Riccardo Viale ...
    Examining the role of implicit, unconscious thinking on reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and its neurocognitive basis, for a genuinely psychological conception of rationality.This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide implications for our ideas about creativity, decision making, and economic behavior. The essays focus on the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • Understanding Language Teaching

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    This book traces the historical development of major language teaching methods in terms of theoretical principles and classroom procedures, and provides a critical evaluation of each. Drawing from seminal, foundational texts and from critical commentaries made by various scholars, Kumaravadivelu examines the profession's current transition from method to postmethod and, in the process, elucidates ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Understanding Reading

    A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read, Sixth Edition

    by Frank Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Education Classic Edition
    Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic text Smith’s purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading – linguistic, physiological, psychological, and social – and of what is involved in learning to read ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Self-Evidencing Agent

    Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing

    by Jakob Hohwy ...
    How the concept of self-evidencing offers a philosophical principle for understanding mind and behavior, consciousness, value, wisdom, and meaning.What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one’s own model of oneself and the world. The Self-Evidencing Agent begins with a simple analysis of what it is ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Primer in Theory Construction

    An A&B Classics Edition

    by Paul Davidson Reynolds ...
    A Primer in Theory Construction is for those who have already studied one or more of the social, behavioral, or natural sciences, but have no formal introduction to the way theories are constructed, stated, tested, and connected together to form a scientific body of knowledge. The author discusses scientific theories in general terms, but also addresses the special challenges of developing ... Read more

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  • The Psychology of Thinking

    Reasoning, Decision-Making and Problem-Solving

    by John Paul Minda ...
    The Psychology of Thinking is an engaging, interesting and easy-to-follow guide into the essential concepts behind our reasoning, decision-making and problem-solving. Clearly structured into 3 sections, this book will;Introduce your students to organisation of thought including memory, language and concepts;Expand their understanding of reasoning including inference and induction as well as ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • How to Be a Researcher

    A strategic guide for academic success

    by Jonathan Evans ...
    How to be a Researcher provides a strategic guide to the conduct of a successful research career within a university environment. Based on the author’s extensive personal experience, it offers down-to-earth advice, philosophical guidance, and discussions of the political context of academic research.This is not a research methods book, and the topics it covers are rarely discussed elsewhere. The ... Read more

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  • Mind in Art

    Cognitive Foundations in Art Education

    by Charles M. Dorn ...
    This book is for the reader who believes that thinking about and making art is intelligent behavior and that art as a subject in the K-12 school curriculum should not be used as an alibi for other curricular objectives. It examines and makes explicit those cognitive behaviors normally associated with most higher order thinking and problem solving activity and explains how they function in the act ... Read more

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  • Open Minds

    The Social Making of Agency and Intentionality

    by Wolfgang Prinz ...
    A novel proposal that the cognitive architecture for volition and cognition arises from particular kinds of social interaction and communication.In Open Minds, Wolfgang Prinz offers the novel claim that agency and intentionality are first perceived and understood in others, and that it is only through practices and discourses of social mirroring that individuals come to apply these features to ... Read more

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