Main description:

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.

Contents:

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