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Product Description: This collection of essays focuses on three reasoning problems devised by Peter Wason - the selection task, the 2-4-6 task, and the THOG problem - which have had a considerable influence since their invention.; The reasons why people make so many errors in these seemingly simple tasks are still not fully understood...read more

Hardcover:

9780863773587 | Psychology Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays focuses on three reasoning problems devised by Peter Wason - the selection task, the 2-4-6 task, and the THOG problem - which have had a considerable influence since their invention.

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Examines the psychological motivation of chess players and discusses the role of subjective and irrational considerations in influencing a chess player's decisions

Hardcover:

9780871962263 | Facts on File, November 1, 1984, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Examines the psychological motivation of chess players and discusses the role of subjective and irrational considerations in influencing a chess player's decisions

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Product Description: First published in 1977, this is a volume about the scientific study of thinking: its possibility, its part state and its future prospects. The editors have brought together a set of readings which draw on work in cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, psycholinguistics and philosophy...read more
By P. N. Johnson-Laird (editor) and P. C. Wason (editor)

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9780521292672 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 27, 1978, cover price $69.99 | About this edition: First published in 1977, this is a volume about the scientific study of thinking: its possibility, its part state and its future prospects.

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