The Adaptive Character of Thought

by John R. Anderson

Book Overview

This important volume examines the phenomena of cognition from an adaptive perspective. Rather than adhering to the typical practice in cognitive psychology of trying to predict behavior from a model of cognitive mechanisms, this book develops a number of models that successfully predict behavior from the structure of the environment to which cognition is adapted. The methodology -- called rational analysis -- involves specifying the information-processing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805804196
• ISBN13: 9780805804195
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"