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Like New: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
ISBN
9780132209748
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Name
Thinking
Item Height
0.9in
Author
Gary R. Kirby, Jeffery R. Goodpaster
Item Length
8.8in
Publisher
Prentice Hall PTR
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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This book about thinking presents readers with a systematic, practical, and friendly approach that encompasses all fields of study and business. It explores a valuable skill that will inspire and enlarge people's ability to think through life. Chapter topics cover what thinking is, personal barriers, sensing, brain and memory, language, feeling, creative thinking, organizing, logical thinking, scientific thinking, persuasive thinking, problem solving, evaluating, decision and action, and the challenge to go on thinking. They draw ideas on thinking from every period of history-from the philosophers, poets, scientists, psychologists, linguists, and neuroscientists. For thinkers of the new millenium.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Prentice Hall PTR
ISBN-10
0132209748
ISBN-13
9780132209748
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50796994

Product Key Features

Author
Gary R. Kirby, Jeffery R. Goodpaster
Publication Name
Thinking
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Bf441.K49 2007
Edition Number
4
Table of Content
1 What Is Thinking? OUR CULTURAL LEGACY WHY THINK? THINKING ACTIVITY 1.1: Things More Important Than Thinking Thoughts Richer Than Gold Thinking as Possibility Thoughts Accumulate Life Without Thinking WHAT IS THINKING? The Mystery Toward a Definition: Thinking as Communicating BOX: The Centrality of Thinking COMMUNICATING: THE MIRROR OF THOUGHT Thinking as Writing: Clarity, Exactness, Awareness, Richness THINKING ACTIVITY 1.2: Thinking, Sensing, Writing Thinking as Dialogue: Validation and Insight MISTHINKING SUMMARY THINKING CHALLENGES 2 Personal Barriers ENCULTURATION Sources of Enculturation BOX: Some Common American Beliefs Religion and Enculturation BOX: Spinoza: A Man of Reason THINKING ACTIVITY 2.1: Our Own Enculturation SELF-CONCEPT THINKING ACTIVITY 2.2: The Idea of Self THINKING ACTIVITY 2.3: Letting Go EGO DEFENSES Denial Projection Rationalization SELF-SERVING BIASES BOX: Other Attribution Errors BOX: Self-Serving Biases? THINKING ACTIVITY 2.4: Owning Up to Our Dark Side THE ROLE OF EXPECTATIONS AND SCHEMATA EMOTIONAL INFLUENCES Anger Passion Depression THINKING ACTIVITY 2.5: Five Thinking Errors STRIVING FOR COGNITIVE CONSISTENCY STRESS BOX: Signs and Symptoms of Stress Stress Management THINKING ACTIVITY 2.6: Five Ways to Prevent Stress SUMMARY BARRIER CHALLENGES 3 Sensing SENSUAL BEGINNINGS THE POWER OF OUR SENSES THE DECEPTION OF OUR SENSES THINKING ACTIVITY 3.1: Ideas: Innate or Learned? THINKING ACTIVITY 3.2: Our Personal Sense Deceptions SHARPENING OUR SENSES THINKING ACTIVITY 3.3: Seeing Anew POWERFUL LISTENING The Paradox of Powerful Listening How to Listen THINKING ACTIVITY 3.4: Developing an Action Plan SUMMARY SENSING AND THINKING CHALLENGES 4 Brain and Memory THE MYSTERY THINKING AND OUR BRAIN THINKING ACTIVITY 4.1: An Exercise in Mental Discipline Food and Drugs Sleep THINKING ACTIVITY 4.2: Critical Reading Before We Sleep Our Thinking Potential BOX: Brain and Mind THINKING AND MEMORY The Changing Nature of Memory THINKING ACTIVITY 4.3: Memories of Childhood Forgetting BOX: Recall versus Recognition Why We Forget How to Improve Memory THINKING ACTIVITY 4.4: Using Mnemonics BOX: Memory Pills SUMMARY BRAIN AND MEMORY CHALLENGES 5 Language: Our Thinking Medium THINKING ACTIVITY 5.1: Language and Thinking LANGUAGE AND OUR MIND The Universalizing Power of Language <p style="MARG
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Lccn
2006-003331
Dewey Decimal
153.4/2
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Psychology, Philosophy

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  • by jennyfer_91_09
    Aug 14, 2010

    Great conditon, look forward to reading it this fall!

    I needed this book for a class i will taking at csudh this fall, i always like to buy my books in advance (save $$) I decided to buy it because it was at a great reasonable price compared to similar items. Seller was great in communicating with me, 100% satisfied overall. Thanks :)

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