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Sternberg, Robert J. and Funke, Joachim (Eds.): The Psychology of Human Thought: An Introduction, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2019. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.470

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07/31/2019

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Robert J. Sternberg (Ed.), Joachim Funke (Ed.)

The Psychology of Human Thought

An Introduction

The “Psychology of Human Thought” is an “open access” collection of peer-reviewed chapters from all areas of higher cognitive processes. The book is intended to be used as a textbook in courses on higher process, complex cognition, human thought, and related courses. Chapters include concept acquisition, knowledge representation, inductive and deductive reasoning, problem solving, metacognition, language, expertise, intelligence, creativity, wisdom, development of thought, affect and thought, and sections about history and about methods. The chapters are written by distinguished scholarly experts in their respective fields, coming from such diverse regions as North America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Norway, Israel, and Australia. The level of the chapters is addressed to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students.

Robert J. Sternberg, Professor of Human Development, Cornell University, USA; Honorary Professor of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Germany.  Areas of research: Intelligence, creativity, wisdom, reasoning, problem solving.

Joachim Funke, Professor for Cognitive and Theoretical Psychology at Heidelberg University, Germany. Areas of research: Reasoning, problem solving, thinking, creativity.

Chapters

Table of Contents
Pages
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Front Matter
List of Contributors
Contents
Robert J. Sternberg, Joachim Funke
Preface
1-2
Robert J. Sternberg, Joachim Funke
The Psychology of Human Thought: Introduction
3-13
Robert J. Sternberg
History of the Field of the Psychology of Human Thought
15-25
Arndt Bröder
Methods for Studying Human Thought
27-53
Kimery R. Levering, Kenneth J. Kurtz
Concepts: Structure and Acquisition
55-69
Art Graesser, Anne M. Lippert, Keith T. Shubeck
Knowledge Representation and Acquisition
71-87
Klaus Fiedler, Rakefet Ackerman, Chiara Scarampi
Metacognition: Monitoring and Controlling One’s Own Knowledge, Reasoning and Decisions
89-111
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Deductive Reasoning
113-132
Janet E. Davidson
Inductive Reasoning
133-154
Joachim Funke
Problem Solving
155-176
Julia Nolte, David Garavito, Valerie Reyna
Decision Making
177-198
Lisa von Stockhausen, Joachim Funke
Nature of Language
199-212
Andrea Bender
Language and Thought
213-233
David Z. Hambrick
Expertise
235-253
Oliver Wilhelm, Ulrich Schroeders
Intelligence
255-275
Todd Lubart, Branden Thornhill-Miller
Creativity: An Overview of the 7C’s of Creative Thought
277-305
Judith Glück
Wisdom
307-326
Kathleen M. Galotti
Development of Human Thought
327-340
Joseph Forgas
Affect and Thought: The Relationship Between Feeling and Thinking
341-361
Mary Gauvain
Culture and Thought
363-379
Subject Index
381-385
Author Index
387-399

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