ABSTRACT

In this concise and lucid survey, originally published in 1972, the author considers the major theoretical perspectives influential in the psychology of thinking at the time. They are looked at in relation to the problems which they are designed to answer and their success in accounting for the experimental evidence.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

part ONE|94 pages

The Development of Logical Thinking

chapter 1|34 pages

Logic and psychology

chapter 2|36 pages

The developmental theory of Jean Piaget

chapter 3|22 pages

Cognitive competence and performance

part TWO|38 pages

Concept Formation

chapter 4|16 pages

The theory of abstraction

chapter 5|20 pages

Concept shifts

part THREE|43 pages

Thinking — Human and Mechanical

chapter 6|20 pages

Reasoning and problem-solving

chapter 7|21 pages

Computer simulation of thought processes

part FOUR|62 pages

Personal Knowledge

chapter 8|25 pages

Creative Thinking

chapter 9|21 pages

Language and thought

chapter 10|14 pages

The phenomenology of thinking