Lines of Thinking Reflections on the Psychology of Thought Representation, Reasoning, Analogy and Decision Making

Partial table of contents: Why Do We Sometimes Think in Words? (B. Shanon). Rule Structure, Frequency, Typically Gradients, and the Representation of Diagnostic Categories (A. Vandierendonck). A Naturalistic Approach to Mental Representation (M. Gonzales, et al.). Immediate Deduction Between Quantified Sentences (G. Politzer). The Control of Attentional Focus by Quantifiers (L. Moxey, et al.). Models and Deductive Reasoning (R. Byrne & P. Johnson-Laird). Is the Base Rate Fallacy an Instance of Asserting the Consequent? (M. Braine, et al.). Analogy, Metaphor, and Transfer (M. Keane). Incremental Analogizing: Theory and Model (M. Keane). Transfer in Insight Problems: The Effects of Different Types of Similarity (M. Gick). The Role of Rational Models in the Decision Making Process (R. Ranyard). Accounting for Decisions: Justification and Rhetoric (K. Teigen). Index.Gilhooly, K. J. is the author of 'Lines of Thinking Reflections on the Psychology of Thought Representation, Reasoning, Analogy and Decision Making' with ISBN 9780471924272 and ISBN 047192427X.