Evolution and the psychology of thinking [[electronic resource] ] : the debate / / [edited by] David E. Over

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451536703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hove, : Psychology, 2003
• ISBN: 0-203-69817-7; 1-135-42632-5; 1-280-07792-1; 0-203-64160-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Collana: Current issues in thinking and reasoning
• Altri autori (Persone): OverD. E. <1946->
• Disciplina: 155.7
• Soggetti: Cognitive psychology; Genetic psychology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; EVOLUTION AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THINKING; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: The evolutionary psychology of thinking; 1. The allocation system: Using signal detection processes to regulate representations in a multimodular mind; Implications of a multimodular mind; Primer on Signal Detection Theory; The allocation system; Misallocations and misrepresentations; The structure of the allocation system; Setting parameters in social situations; Other implications; References; 2. Is there a faculty of deontic reasoning? A critical re-evaluation of abstract deontic versions of the Wason selection taskSocial Contract Theory; The deontic alternative; Abstract deontic rules are problematic for Social Contract Theory; Is a social contract a permission or is a permission a social contract?; Emotions as a cue to interpretation; What is the significance of these results for the study of deontic reasoning?; Conclusion; References; 3. Evolutionary psychology's grain problem and the cognitive neuroscience of reasoning; Introduction; The grain problem according to Sterelny and GriffithsThe two-dimensional grain problem; Levels of analysis; Inferring adaptive ; problems from their solutions: The case of reasoning; Inferring solutions from adaptive problems: The case of reasoning; The pay-off; A dispute dissolved?; Conclusion; References; 4. Specialized behaviour without specialized modules; Introduction; Domain specificity in evolutionary psychology; Evolutionary psychology and cheater detection; Cheater detection-the empirical evidence; A connectionist perspective; Conclusion; References; 5. From massive modularity to metarepresentation: The evolution of higher cognitionModularity arguments and deontic reasoning; Modularity arguments and probabilistic reasoning; Natural sampling; Metarepresentation; Conclusion; References; 6. Probability judgement from the inside and out; Base-rate neglect; Conjunction fallacy; Summary of studies; Types of probability judgement; More on the natural frequency hypothesis; Frames for probability judgement; Conclusion; References; 7. Evolutionary versus instrumental goals: How evolutionary psychology misconceives human rationality; Debates about the normative response in heuristics and biases tasks: Some examplesDissociations between cognitive ability and the modal response in heuristics and biases tasks; Reconciling the two data patterns within a two-process view; Evolutionary rationality is not instrumental rationality; Where evolutionary psychology goes wrong; How evolutionary psychology goes wrong; The slippery notion of ecological rationality; The unacknowledged importance of the meme; Choosing the vehicle rather than the replicators: Evolutionary psychology without greedy reductionism; References; Author index; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: The field of evolutionary cognitive psychology has stimulated considerable interest and debate among cognitive psychologists and those working in related areas. In this collection, leading experts evaluate the status of this new field, providing a critical analysis of its most controversial hypotheses. These hypotheses have far reaching implications for cognition, including a modular view of the mind, which rejects, in its extreme form, any general learning or reasoning abilities. Some evolutionary psychologists have also proposed content-dependent accounts of conditional reasoning and probabi