domain general versus domain specific processes in higher cognition /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Maxwell J. Roberts.
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New York :
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Psychology Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
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1 online resource (ix, 510 pages) :
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illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Contextual facilitation methodology as a means of investigating domain specific cognition / Maxwell J. Roberts -- To what extent do social contracts affect performance on Wason's selection task? / Ira A. Noveck, Hugo Mercier, and Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst -- What sorts of reasoning modules have been provided by evolution? Some experiments conducted among Tukano speakers in Brazilian Amazônia concerning reasoning about conditional propositions and about conditional probabilities / David P. O'Brien, Antônio Roazzi, Renato Athias, and Maria do Carmo Brandão -- Content-independent conditional inference / David E. Over -- Ontological commitments and domain specific categorisation / Steven Sloman, Tania Lombrozo, and Barbara Malt -- Perspectives on the "tools" of decision-making / Ben R. Newell and David R. Shanks -- Domain general contributions to social reasoning : the perspective from cognitive neuroscience / Margaret C. McKinnon, Brian Levine, and Morris Moscovitch -- Explaining the domain generality of human cognition / Keith Stenning and Michiel van Lambalgen -- Domain general processes in higher cognition : analogical reasoning, schema induction and capacity limitations / Graeme S. Halford and Glenda Andrews -- A competence-procedural and developmental approach to logical reasoning / Willis F. Overton and Anthony Steven Dick -- Less specificity in higher cognitive mechanisms : evidence from theory of mind / Keith R. Happaney and Philip David Zelazo -- Interactions between domain general and domain specific processes in the development of children's theories of mind / Louis J. Moses and Mark A. Sabbagh -- Do we need a number sense? / Kelly S. Mix and Catherine M. Sandhofer -- Do problem solvers need to be intelligent? / Maxwell J. Roberts -- Creativity : specialised expertise or general cognitive processes? / Dean Keith Simonton -- The CASE for a general factor in intelligence / Philip Adey -- Innovation, fatal accidents, and the evolution of general intelligence / Linda S. Gottfredson -- Heritability and the nomological network of 'g' / Nathan Brody -- Cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of the law of general intelligence / Christopher F. Chabris.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Taking a wide-ranging look at the evidence and arguments put forward in support of domain specific cognition, this book argues that domain general processes are important, and that domain specific processes cannot function without them.