Evolution and the psychology of thinking the debate
The field of evolutionary cognitive psychology has stimulated considerable interest and debate among cognitive psychologists and those working in related areas. In this collection, leading experts evaluate the status of this new field, providing a critical analysis of its most controversial hypothes...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Psychology
2003.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Current issues in thinking & reasoning.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798037506719 |
| Sumario: | The field of evolutionary cognitive psychology has stimulated considerable interest and debate among cognitive psychologists and those working in related areas. In this collection, leading experts evaluate the status of this new field, providing a critical analysis of its most controversial hypotheses. These hypotheses have far reaching implications for cognition, including a modular view of the mind, which rejects, in its extreme form, any general learning or reasoning abilities. Some evolutionary psychologists have also proposed content-dependent accounts of conditional reasoning and probabi |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203698174 9781135426323 9781280077920 9780203641606 |
