The Psychology of Thinking

Reasoning, Decision-Making and Problem-Solving

John Paul Minda

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Sage Publications Ltd
19 October 2020

Cognition & cognitive psychology; Nursing fundamentals & skills

The Psychology of Thinking is an engaging, interesting and easy-to-follow guide into the essential concepts behind our reasoning, decision-making and problem-solving. Clearly structured into 3 sections, this book will;

Introduce your students to organisation of thought including memory, language and concepts; Expand their understanding of reasoning including inference and induction as well as motivation and the impact of mood; Improve their thinking in action, focusing on decision-making and problem-solving.

Suitable for any course in which students need to develop their judgement and decision-making skills, this book uses clever examples of real-world situations to help them understand and apply the theories discussed to their everyday thinking.

By: John Paul Minda
Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 186mm,
Weight: 740g
ISBN: 9781529702071
ISBN 10: 1529702070
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 19 October 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Section 1: The Organization of Human Thought Chapter 1: The Psychology of Thinking Chapter 2: The Psychology of Similarity Chapter 3: Knowledge and Memory Chapter 4: Concepts and Categories Chapter 5: Language and Thought Section 2: Thinking and Reasoning Chapter 6: Inference and Induction Chapter 7: Deductive Reasoning Chapter 8: Context, Motivation, and Mood Section 3: Thinking in Action: Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Expertise Chapter 9: Decision-Making Chapter 10: Problem-Solving Chapter 11: Expertise and Expert Thinking

John Paul Minda is a Professor of Psychology and a member of the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University, in London, Ontario. As a researcher, he is interested in thinking as it relates to concepts and categories. He runs a research laboratory that investigates how people learn new categories and represent them with concepts. He also studies how conceptual structure interacts with and affects behavioural outcomes. He has done research on medical expertise and on the kinds of reasoning tasks that physicians engage in. As an instructor, and as a psychologist in general, he is interested in other aspects of thinking as well. Every year since 2003, he has taught a course on the Psychology of Thinking.