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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Over, D. E., 1946- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hove ; New York : Psychology Press 2003.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Current issues in thinking & reasoning.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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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.
Descripción Física:vii, 246 p. : il
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
ISBN:9780203641606
9786610077922