Integrating the Mind Domain General Versus Domain Specific Processes in Higher Cognition 1st Edition by Maxwell J Roberts ISBN 1135420300 9781135420307

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ISBN 10: 1135420300

ISBN 13: 9781135420307 

Author: Maxwell J. Roberts

There are currently several debates taking place simultaneously in various fields of psychology which address the same fundamental issue: to what extent are the processes and resources that underlie higher cognition domain-general versus domain-specific? Extreme Domain Specificity argues that people are effective thinkers only in contexts which they have directly experienced, or in which evolution has equipped them with effective solutions. The role of general cognitive abilities is ignored, or denied altogether.

This book evaluates the evidence and arguments put forward in support of domain specific cognition, at the expense of domain generality. The contributions reflect a range of expertise, and present research into logical reasoning, problem solving, judgement and decision making, cognitive development, and intelligence. The contributors suggest that domain general processes are essential, and that domain specific processes cannot function without them. Rather than continuing to divide the mind’s function into ever more specific units, this book argues that psychologists should look for greater integration and for people’s general cognitive skills to be viewed as an integral part of their lives.

Integrating the Mind will be valuable reading for students and researchers in psychology interested in the fields of cognition, cognitive development, intelligence and skilled behaviour.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Extreme Domain Specificity and Higher Cognition

2. Contextual Facilitation Methodology as a Means of Investigating Domain-Specific Cognition

3. To What Extent Do Social Contracts Affect Performance on Wason’s Selection Task

4. Experiments on Reasoning About Conditional Propositions and Probabilities Among Tukano Speakers in Brazilian Amazônia

5. Content-Independent Conditional Inference

6. Mild Ontology and Domain-Specific Categorization

7. Perspectives on the ‘Tools’ of Decision-Making

8. Domain-General Contributions to Social Reasoning: The Perspective from Cognitive Neuroscience

9. Explaining the Domain Generality of Human Cognition

10. Extreme Domain Specificity and Cognitive Development

11. Domain General Processes in Higher Cognition: Analogical Reasoning, Schema Induction, and Capacity Limitations

12. A Competence-Procedural and Developmental Approach to Logical Reasoning

13. Less Specificity in Higher Cognitive Mechanisms: Evidence from Theory of Mind

14. Interactions Between Domain-General and Domain-Specific Processes in the Development of Children’s Theories of Mind

15. Do We Need a Number Sense? Extreme Domain Specificity versus Domain General Intelligence

16. Do Problem Solvers Need to Be Intelligent?

17. Creativity: Specialised Expertise or General Cognitive Processes?

18. The CASE for a General Factor in Intelligence

19. Innovation, Fatal Accidents, and the Evolution of General Intelligence

20. Heritability and the Nomological Network of g

21. Cognitive and Neurobiological Mechanisms of the Law of General Intelligence

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