Adaptive Thinking

Author : Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0195153723

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Adaptive Thinking by Gerd Gigerenzer Pdf

Where do new ideas come from? What is social intelligence? Why do social scientists perform mindless statistical rituals? This vital book is about rethinking rationality as adaptive thinking: to understand how minds cope with their environments, both ecological and social.Gerd Gigerenzer proposes and illustrates a bold new research program that investigates the psychology of rationality, introducing the concepts of ecological, bounded, and social rationality. His path-breaking collection takes research on thinking, social intelligence, creativity, and decision-making out of an ethereal world where the laws of logic and probability reign, and places it into our real world of human behavior and interaction. Adaptive Thinking is accessibly written for general readers with an interest in psychology, cognitive science, economics, sociology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and animal behavior. It also teaches a practical audience, such as physicians, AIDS counselors, and experts in criminal law, how to understand and communicate uncertainties and risks.

Author : Karl Albrecht
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781439188644

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Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills by Karl Albrecht Pdf

Do you want to expand your mental power? Think more clearly, logically, and creatively? Improve your memory? Solve problems and make decisions more effectively? Brain Power introduces the six functional thinking abilities you need to become an adaptive, innovative thinker. As you develop your ability to think on your feet, to isolate and arrange facts, and to avoid logical pitfalls you will see how to use creative problem solving strategies, both in business and in private life. With practical exercises to improve your full range of mental capabilities from concentration to intuition, management consultant Karl Albrecht answers all your questions on becoming a more efficient and effective thinking. Offering a gold mine of ideas and techniques to use in most any situation, Brain Power provides fascinating illustrations, games, and puzzles that will stimulate and expand your brain power.

Author : Robert C. Richardson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262261111

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Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology by Robert C. Richardson Pdf

A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results. Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our psychological capacities are evolved traits as much as are our gait and posture. This much few would dispute. Evolutionary psychology goes further than this, claiming that our psychological traits—including a wide variety of traits, from mate preference and jealousy to language and reason—can be understood as specific adaptations to ancestral Pleistocene conditions. In Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology, Robert Richardson takes a critical look at evolutionary psychology by subjecting its ambitious and controversial claims to the same sorts of methodological and evidential constraints that are broadly accepted within evolutionary biology. The claims of evolutionary psychology may pass muster as psychology; but what are their evolutionary credentials? Richardson considers three ways adaptive hypotheses can be evaluated, using examples from the biological literature to illustrate what sorts of evidence and methodology would be necessary to establish specific evolutionary and adaptive explanations of human psychological traits. He shows that existing explanations within evolutionary psychology fall woefully short of accepted biological standards. The theories offered by evolutionary psychologists may identify traits that are, or were, beneficial to humans. But gauged by biological standards, there is inadequate evidence: evolutionary psychologists are largely silent on the evolutionary evidence relevant to assessing their claims, including such matters as variation in ancestral populations, heritability, and the advantage offered to our ancestors. As evolutionary claims they are unsubstantiated. Evolutionary psychology, Richardson concludes, may offer a program of research, but it lacks the kind of evidence that is generally expected within evolutionary biology. It is speculation rather than sound science—and we should treat its claims with skepticism.

Author : Arthur D. Anastopoulos,Joshua M. Langberg,Laura Hennis Besecker,Laura D. Eddy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030331696

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CBT for College Students with ADHD by Arthur D. Anastopoulos,Joshua M. Langberg,Laura Hennis Besecker,Laura D. Eddy Pdf

This book provides an overview of the ACCESS program, a mental health program that has been developed and tested as an efficacious treatment for college students with ADHD. This program is at the cutting edge of clinical research, incorporating treatment strategies that allow for dissemination in real world settings in order to effectively assist college students experiencing difficulties in their academic, personal, social, and emotional functioning. As cognitive behavioral approaches have proved to be the most successful psychological treatments to date, the techniques in this volume follow that model in a detailed and nuanced fashion. The authors provide a week by week breakdown of the program, supplemented by handouts and worksheets designed to facilitate better understanding of the areas targeted by the program. Filling a notable gap in research addressing the ADHD college student population, CBT for College Students with ADHD is a crucial resource for campus mental health practitioners as well as a broad range of clinicians dealing with emerging adults.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Military intelligence
ISBN : UOM:39015083198187

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Research Product - U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Military education
ISBN : PURD:32754075490312

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Research Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roger Bourke White Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781449042011

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Evolution and Thought by Roger Bourke White Jr. Pdf

Ah, the mysteries of life. A confidence man scams billions. Politicians fear talking about issues. Marriage is sweet, divorce is sour. This is the human condition But why is this the human condition? That's what this book is about. It's about why we humans think the way we do.

Author : Brian J. Holt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Automation
ISBN : IND:30000092242761

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An Overview of Automaticity and Implications for Training the Thinking Process by Brian J. Holt Pdf

Author : Larisa V. Shavinina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136698019

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The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education by Larisa V. Shavinina Pdf

The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education is the international reference work on innovation education and potentially opens an entirely new direction in education. The overall goal of the handbook is to address the question of how to develop innovators in general and how to develop the innovative potential of today’s young people with exceptional talents in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) disciplines in particular. Today many governments around the world are interested in the development of STEM innovators. This handbook provides the first and most comprehensive account available of what should be done in order to develop innovators and how to do it successfully. It includes chapters by leading specialists from around the world responsible for much of the current research in the fields of innovation, gifted education, scientific talent, science education, and high ability studies. Based on the latest research findings and expert opinion, this book goes beyond mere anecdotes to consider what science can tell us about the development of innovators. By enlisting chapters from innovation experts, educators, psychologists, policy makers, and researchers in the field of management The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education will allow all of these scholars to speak to each other about how to develop innovators via innovation education, including such issues as: the nature of innovation education, its basis, main components and content, its criteria and specificity in various domains and contexts, societal demands placed upon it. This ground-breaking and potentially field defining work will thus serve as the first authoritative resource on all aspects of theory, research, and practice of innovation education.

Author : Neil Levy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351937993

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Evolutionary Psychology by Neil Levy Pdf

Evolutionary approaches to the study of human beings have been able to explain the origin and maintenance of many of the features of our bodies. Many thinkers believe that an evolutionary approach will be equally fruitful when it comes to explaining the features of our minds. Since our behaviour is driven by our minds, our cognitive dispositions and processes are likely to have been a target of selection and adaptation. This volume collects recent prominent explorations of this theme, as well as the voices of dissenters who argue that our minds are far more significantly the product of culture than of evolution.

Author : John Cartwright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137348012

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Evolution and Human Behaviour by John Cartwright Pdf

Our experience of the world is driven by processes common to all animals: growth, survival, reproduction and death. Evolution and Human Behaviour explores the complexities of the human experience through the lens of Darwinism, drawing on a long and vibrant tradition of different theories and interpretations. This textbook offers a compelling synthesis of key concepts, addressing human thought, feeling and behaviour in fundamental evolutionary terms. This is a essential text for undergraduate students taking courses in psychology, human biology, ethology, anthropology and human behavioural ecology, providing an insightful and comprehensive introduction for anyone who wishes to understand how human behaviour has evolved. new_to_this_edition Additional chapters on health and disease, homosexuality, the nature of adaptations and life history theory Includes brand-new material on epigenetics, patterns of crime, error management theory, moral foundations theory, religion and gene culture co-evolution Now accompanied by a companion website offering additional reading material and useful practice questions New 'controversy' boxes in each chapter, providing ideas for essay topics and classroom discussion

Author : U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Military research
ISBN : MINN:31951D03816982J

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ARI Newsletter by U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Military engineering
ISBN : IND:30000106125622

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The Engineer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leslie P. Steffe,Jerry Gale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136476082

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Constructivism in Education by Leslie P. Steffe,Jerry Gale Pdf

Unique in offering a multidisciplinary perspective on key issues of alternative epistemologies in education, this collection includes contributions from scholars in family therapy, epistemology, and mathematics, science, and language education. These respected researchers were brought together to develop the theme of constructivism as it applies to many diversified fields. This book examines key distinctions of various constructivist epistemologies, comparing and contrasting the various paradigms. Each section provides both keynote positions on a particular alternative paradigm as well as critical comments by respondents regarding that position. Several chapters also present a synthesis of the alternative epistemological perspectives.

Author : Alfred Kaszniak
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814493871

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Emotions, Qualia, And Consciousness by Alfred Kaszniak Pdf

The experience of emotion is a ubiquitous component of the stream of consciousness; emotional qualia interact with other contents and processes of consciousness in complex ways. Recent research has supported the hypothesis that important functional aspects of emotion can operate outside the conscious awareness. Primary types of emotions are found in animals, while secondary, more complex types are involved in interpersonal relationships. Emotions both influence genetic repair mechanisms of individuals and are responsible for group behavior. Many scholars and scientists believe that no scientific or philosophic account of consciousness can be complete without an understanding of the role of emotion.