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Higher Mental Processes

edited by Robert W Proctor
contributions by R. L Dominowski, E Galanter, P. N Johnson-Laird, M. G Preston, Robert W Proctor, J Tagart, P Baratta, M. H Birnbaum, M. E Bulbrook, L. S Buyer, R. A Carlson, S. N. F Chant, A. A Cleveland and T. D Cutsforth

University of Illinois Press, 2015
Paper: 978-0-252-08145-3 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09811-6

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

In this new book, Robert W. Proctor curates a collection of celebrated and seminal articles from the past 125 years of the American Journal of Psychology . The debut volume in the University of Illinois Press ™s Common Threads series, Higher Mental Processes reprints a suite of ten articles on processes of higher-order thinking. Proctor, current editor of the AJP , begins the volume with a special introduction that provides historical and scientific context for the contributions.

Contributors: P. Baratta, M. H. Birnbaum, M. E. Bulbrook, L. S. Buyer, R. A. Carlson, S. N. F. Chant, A. A. Cleveland, T. D. Cutsforth, R. L. Dominowski, E. Galanter, P. N. Johnson-Laird, M. G. Preston, Robert W. Proctor, and J. Tagart.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Robert W. Proctor is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University and the coauthor of Why Science Matters: Understanding the Methods of Psychological Research. He is the editor of the American Journal of Psychology.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Contents

ROBERT W. PROCTOR, editor of The American Journal of Psychology. Introduction

R. A. CARLSON. The higher mental processes in The American Journal of Psychology. Vol. 125 (2012)

REASONING

T. D. CUTSFORTH. Synaesthesia in the process of reasoning. Vol. 25 (1924)

P. N. JOHNSON-LAIRD AND J. TAGART. How implication is understood. Vol. 82 (1969)

S. N. F. CHANT. An objective experiment on reasoning. Vol. 45 (1933)

JUDGMENT AND DECISION

M. G. PRESTON AND P. BARATTA. An experimental study of the auction-value of an uncertain outcome. Vol. 61 (1948)

E. GALANTER. Utility functions for nonmonetary events. Vol. 103 (1990)

M. H. BIRNBAUM. Base rates in Bayesian inference: Signal detection analysis of the cab problem. Vol. 96 (1983)

PROBLEM SOLVING

M. E. BULBROOK. An experimental study into the existence and nature of “insight.” Vol. 44 (1932)

R. L. DOMINOWSKI AND L. S. BUYER. Retention of problem solutions: The re-solution effect. Vol. 113 (2000)

A. A. CLEVELAND. The psychology of chess and of learning to play it. Vol. 18 (1907)

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