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Higher Mental Processes
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In this new book, Robert W. Proctor curates a collection of celebrated and seminal articles from the past 125 years of the American Journal of Psychology . The debut volume in the University of Illinois Press ™s Common Threads series, Higher Mental Processes reprints a suite of ten articles on processes of higher-order thinking. Proctor, current editor of the AJP , begins the volume with a special introduction that provides historical and scientific context for the contributions.

Contributors: P. Baratta, M. H. Birnbaum, M. E. Bulbrook, L. S. Buyer, R. A. Carlson, S. N. F. Chant, A. A. Cleveland, T. D. Cutsforth, R. L. Dominowski, E. Galanter, P. N. Johnson-Laird, M. G. Preston, Robert W. Proctor, and J. Tagart.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Introduction
  2. Robert W. Proctor
  3. pp. 4-6
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  1. The higher mental processes in The American Journal of Psychology. Vol. 125 (2012)
  2. R. A. Carlson
  3. pp. 7-28
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  1. Reasoning
  1. Synaesthesia in the process of reasoning. Vol. 25 (1924)
  2. T. D. Cutsforth
  3. pp. 30-39
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  1. How implication is understood. Vol. 82 (1969)
  2. P. N. Johnson-Laird and J. Tagart
  3. pp. 40-46
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  1. An objective experiment on reasoning. Vol. 45 (1933)
  2. S. N. F. Chant
  3. pp. 47-58
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  1. Judgment and Decision
  1. An experimental study of the auction-­value of an uncertain outcome. Vol. 61 (1948)
  2. M. G. Preston and P. Baratta
  3. pp. 60-70
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  1. Utility functions for nonmonetary events. Vol. 103 (1990)
  2. E. Galanter
  3. pp. 71-92
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  1. Base rates in Bayesian inference: Signal detection analysis of the cab problem. Vol. 96 (1983)
  2. M. H. Birnbaum
  3. pp. 93-102
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  1. Problem Solving
  1. An experimental study into the existence and nature of “insight.” Vol. 44 (1932)
  2. M. E. Bulbrook
  3. pp. 104-151
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  1. Retention of problem solutions: The re-solution effect. Vol. 113 (2000)
  2. R. L. Dominowski and L. S. Buyer
  3. pp. 152-177
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  1. The psychology of chess and of learning to play it. Vol. 18 (1907)
  2. A. A. Cleveland
  3. pp. 178-216
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