Thinking
Readings in Cognitive Science

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
An introduction to the study of thinking
Part I. Problem Solving:
1. Introduction: Wertheimer's seminars revisited: diagnostic testing for understanding of structure A. S. Luchins and E. H. Luchins
2. Mental calculation M. L. Hunter
3. On the analysis of human problem solving protocols A. Newell
4. Formalisms for knowledge T. Winograd
Part II. Deduction:
5. Introduction: constructing spatial images: a strategy in reasoning J. Huttenlocher
6. Linguistic processes in deductive reasoning H. H. Clark
7. Self-contradictions P. C. Wason
8. Reasoning with quantifiers P. N. Johnson-Laird
9. A theoretical analysis of insight into a reasoning task P. N. Johnson-Laird and P. C. Wason
10. Intellectual evolution from adolescence to childhood J. Piaget
Part III. Conceptual Thinking:
11. Classification: purposes, principles, progress, prospects R. R. Sokal
12. Learning to identify toy block structures P. H. Winston
13. Classification of real-world objects: origins and representations in cognition E. Rosch
14. Some evidence for the cognitive primacy of categorization and its functional basis K. Nelson
15. The acquisition of word meaning: an investigation of some current conflicts M. Bowerman
Part IV. Hypotheses:
16. Introduction: on hypotheses K. R. Popper
17. A function for thought experiments T. S. Kuhn
18. 'If you want to get ahead, get a theory' A. Karmiloff-Smith and B. Inhelder
19. 'On the failure to eliminate hypotheses …' - a second look P. C. Wason
20. Confirmation bias in a simulated research environment: an experimental study of scientific inference C. R. Mynatt, M. E. Doherty and R. D. Tweney
21. Judgement under uncertainty: heruristics and biases A. Tversky and D. Kahneman
Part V. Inference and Comprehension:
22. Introduction: frame-system theory M. Minsky 23. A sketch of a cognitive approach to comprehension: some thoughts about understanding what it means to comprehend J. D. Bransford and N. S. McCarrell
24. Practical and lexical knowledge G. A. Miller
25. Bridging H. H. Clark
26. Scripts, plans, and knowledge R. C. Schank and R. P. Abelson
Part VI. Language, Culture, and Thinking:
27. Introduction: likeness and likelihood in everyday thought: magical thinking and everyday judgements about personality R. A. Shweder
28. An ethnographic psychology of cognition M. Cole
29. Modes of thinking and ways of speaking: culture and logic reconsidered S. Scribner
30. Linguistic relativity E. Rosch
Part VII. Imagery and Internal Representation:
31. Introduction: mental rotation of three-dimensional objects R. N. Shepard and J. Metzler
32. Inference, navigation and cognitive maps K. G. Oatley
33. Perception in game playing: internal representation and scanning of board positions M. Eisenstadt and Y. Kareev
34. Some necessary conditions for a master chess program H. J. Berliner
Bibliography (and citation index).