Overview

This book explores a new approach to understanding the human mind - rational analysis - that regards thinking as a facility adapted to the structure of the world. This approach is most closely associated with the work of John R Anderson, who published the original book on rational analysis in 1990. Since then, a great deal of work has been carried out in a number of laboratories around the world, and the aim of this book is to bring this work together for the benefit of the general psychological audience. The book contains chapters by some of the world's leading researchers in memory, categorisation, reasoning, and search, who show how the power of rational analysis can be applied to the central question of how humans think. It will be of interest to students and researchers in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and animal behaviour.

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Author:   M. Oaksford (Professor, School of Psychology, Professor, School of Psychology, University of Cardiff) ,  N. Chater (Professor, Department of Psychology, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   1.107kg
ISBN:  

9780198524151

ISBN 10:   0198524153
Pages:   558
Publication Date:   19 November 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater: An introduction to rational models of cognition Section 1: General Issues 2: James L. McClelland: Connectionist models and Bayesian inference 3: Alex Kacelnik: Normative and descriptive models of decision making: time discounting and risk sensitivity Section 2: Memory 4: Richard M. Shiffrin & Mark Steyvers: The effectiveness of retrieval from memory 5: Mark Chappell: Predictions of a Bayesian recognition memory model (and a class of mdels including it) 6: Simon Dennis & Michael Humphreys: Cueing for context: an alternative to global matching models of recognition memory 7: Lael J. Schooler: Sorting out core memory processes 8: Richard B. Anderson: Rational and non-rational aspects of forgetting 9: Gordon D.A. Brown & Janet I. Vousden: Adaptive analysis of sequential behaviour: oscillators as rational mechanisms Section 3: Categorization & Induction 10: John R. Anderson & Michael Matessa: The rational analysis of categorization and the ACT-R architecture 11: Robert M. Nosofsky: Optimum performance and exemplar models of classificaiton 12: Evan Heit: A Bayesian analysis of some forms of inductive reasoning 13: Koen Lambers & Stephen Chong: Dynamics of dimension weight distribution and flexibility in categorization Section 4: Reasoning 14: Clark Glymour and Patricia Cheng: Causal mechanism and probability: a normative approach 15: Francisco J. Lopoz, Pedro L. Cobos, Antonio Cano & David Shanks: The rational analysis of human contingency judgement 16: Andrew M. Colman: Rationality assumption of game theory and the backward induction paradox 17: Mike Oaksford & Nick Chater: A revised rational analysis of the selection task: exceptions and sequential sampling 18: David Over & Alan Jessop: Rational analysis of causal conditionals and the selection task 19: Elke M. Kurz & Ryan D. Tweney: The practice of mathematics and science: from calculus to the clothesline problem Section 5: Search 20: Nick Chater, Matthew J. Crocker & Martin J. Pickering: The rational analysis of inquiry: the case of parsing 21: Richard M. Young: Rational analysis of exploratory choice 22: Brendan McGonigle & Margaret McGonigle: Rationality as optimised cognitive self-regulation

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