Cognition as Intuitive Statistics

Gerd Gigerenzer, David J. Murray (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2017
Psychology Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-138-95030-6 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Originally published in 1987, this title is about theory construction in psychology. Where theories come from, as opposed to how they become established, was almost a no-man’s land in the history and philosophy of science at the time. The authors argue that in the science of mind, theories are particularly likely to come from tools, and they are especially concerned with the emergence of the metaphor of the mind as an intuitive statistician.

In the first chapter, the authors discuss the rise of the inference revolution, which institutionalized those statistical tools that later became theories of cognitive processes. In each of the four following chapters they treat one major topic of cognitive psychology and show to what degree statistical concepts transformed their understanding of those topics.

Gigerenzer, Gerd; Murray, David J.

Acknowledgements. Introduction: Two Revolutions – Cognitive and Probabilistic 1. The Inference Revolution 2. Detection and Discrimination: From Thresholds to Statistical Inference 3. Perception: From Unconscious Inference to Hypothesis Testing 4. Memory: From Association to Decision Making 5. Thinking: From Insight to Intuitive Statistics 6. Conclusions. References. Author Index. Subject Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	Psychology Revivals
Verlagsort	Hove
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	317 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10	1-138-95030-0 / 1138950300
ISBN-13	978-1-138-95030-6 / 9781138950306
Zustand	Neuware