psychology of reasoning (also known as the cognitive science of reasoning) is the study of how people reason, often broadly defined as the process of...
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use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which...
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Peter Cathcart Wason (category Academics of the University of Aberdeen)
psychologist at University College, London, who pioneered the psychology of reasoning. He sought to explain why people consistently commit logical errors...
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Reason (redirect from History of reasoning)
The field of automated reasoning studies how reasoning may or may not be modeled computationally. Animal psychology considers the question of whether animals...
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deductive arguments. Cognitive psychology investigates the mental processes responsible for deductive reasoning. One of its topics concerns the factors...
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Moral reasoning is the study of how people think about right and wrong and how they acquire and apply moral rules. It is a subdiscipline of moral psychology...
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Philip Johnson-Laird (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
University's Department of Psychology, as well as the author of several notable books on human cognition and the psychology of reasoning. He was educated at...
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Causal reasoning is the process of identifying causality: the relationship between a cause and its effect. The study of causality extends from ancient...
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Emotional reasoning creates an 'emotional truth', which may be in direct conflict with the inverse 'perceptional truth'. It can create feelings of anxiety...
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Logical reasoning is a mental activity that aims to arrive at a conclusion in a rigorous way. It happens in the form of inferences or arguments by starting...
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Prediction Procedural reasoning system Pseudoscience Pseudoskepticism Psychological projection Psychology of reasoning Qualitative Reasoning Group Rationality...
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Spatial–temporal reasoning is an area of artificial intelligence that draws from the fields of computer science, cognitive science, and cognitive psychology. The...
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Indicative conditional (category Reasoning)
form, and the implications of those denotations for areas including metaphysics, psychology of reasoning, and philosophy of mathematics. Early analyses...
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Thought (redirect from Nature of human thought)
processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation. Their most paradigmatic forms are judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving,...
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Keith Stanovich (category Academic staff of the University of Toronto)
research areas are the psychology of reasoning and the psychology of reading. Stanovich has been acknowledged by his peers as one of the most influential...
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Dual process theory (category Cognitive psychology)
(1999). "The influence of linguistic form on reasoning: the case of matching bias". The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 52 (1): 185–216. doi:10...
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of domain-specific knowledge rather than general-purpose reasoning. These efforts led to the cognitive revolution in psychology and to the phase of AI...
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Mental model (category Cognitive psychology)
a small set of fundamental assumptions (axioms), which distinguish them from other proposed representations in the psychology of reasoning (Byrne and Johnson-Laird...
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the intersection of ethics, psychology, and philosophy of mind. Some of the main topics of the field are moral judgment, moral reasoning, moral satisficing...
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I'm My Own Grandpa (section Logic and reasoning)
issues in formal logic as contrasted with psychology of reasoning, noting that the transitive property of identity relationships expressed in natural...
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investment Psychology of programming Psychology of religion Psychology of reasoning Psychology Today Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology Psychometrics...
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thinking (Byrne, 2005). Mental model § Mental models and reasoning Psychology of reasoning Byrne, R.M.J. (2005). The Rational Imagination: How People...
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Wason selection task (category Evolutionary psychology)
in 1966. It is one of the most famous tasks in the study of deductive reasoning. An example of the puzzle is: You are shown a set of four cards placed...
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Analogy (redirect from Psychology of analogy)
S2CID 5371492. Gentner, Dedre (2006), "Analogical Reasoning, Psychology of", Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, American Cancer Society, doi:10.1002/0470018860...
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The notion that motives or goals affect reasoning has a long and controversial history in social psychology. This is because supportive research could...
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phenomenon Legitimating ideology Might makes right Minimisation (psychology) Motivated reasoning Narcissistic defenses Omission bias Psychological projection...
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Political Psychology. 21 (4): 667–695. doi:10.1111/0162-895X.00212. Hedl, John J.; Glazer, H.; Chan, F. (2005). "Improving the Moral Reasoning of Allied...
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In philosophy of mind and cognitive science, folk psychology, or commonsense psychology or naïve psychology, is a human capacity to explain and predict...
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Inductive reasoning is any of various methods of reasoning in which broad generalizations or principles are derived from a body of observations. This article...
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Near-miss effect (section Psychology)
characteristics. Psychology of reasoning Problem gambling Sport psychology Reid, R. L. (1986). "The psychology of the near miss" (PDF). Journal of Gambling Behavior...
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