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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2011
      November 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511818714
      9780521810906
      9780521009287
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511818714
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.87kg, 482 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 488 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Psychology, Cognition, Educational Psychology
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    We are bombarded with information - press releases, television news, internet websites, and office memos, just to name a few - on a daily basis. However, the important conclusions that may or need to be inferred from such information are typically not provided. We must draw the conclusions by ourselves. How do we draw these conclusions? This 2004 book addresses how we reason to reach sensible conclusions. The purpose of this book is to organise in one volume what is known about reasoning, such as its structural prerequisites, its mechanisms, its susceptibility to pragmatic influences, its pitfalls, and the bases for its development. Given that reasoning underlies so many of our intellectual activities - when we learn, criticise, analyse, judge, infer, evaluate, optimise, apply, discover, imagine, devise, and create - we stand to gain a great deal if we can learn to define, operate, apply, and nurture our reasoning.

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    "This handy, one-volume compendium of current theory and research on the psychology of reasoning not only presents the state of the science of reasoning but also charts new directions. Covering everything from how to define reasoning... to the brain functions that subserve reasoning... the book's contributors...create a comprehensive account of what is known about reasoning in psychology and cognitive science. The editors and contributors are all well-known and highly regarded researchers in the field.... Highly recommended." Choice

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