Thinking
Subtitle: from association to Gestalt
By: Jean Matter Mandler and George Mandler
Contributors: Mandler, George
Series: Perspectives in psychology; Perspectives in psychology
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Thinking; Thought and thinking; Association of ideas; Pensée
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Early associationism: the philosophers : Thinking, Recollection / Aristotle ; Thought, Of the train of imaginations / Thomas Hobbes ; Ideas and their origin, Simple ideas, Perception, memory, naming and abstraction, Complex ideas, The association of ideas, Reason /John Locke ; Of ideas, their origin, composition, connexion, abstraction / David Hume; title: 3. Early associationism: philosophical psychology : The doctrines of vibrations and association in general, Words and the ideas associated with them / David Hartley ; The association of ideas, Ratiocination, The will / James Mill ; Compound association, The singling out of one among many trains / Alexander Bain; title: 4. Thinking and the new psychology: imageless thought : The qualitative investigation of associations / A. Mayer and J. Orth ; The psychology of judgments / Karl Marbe ; Experimental-psychological investigations on thinking / August Messer ; Awareness / Narziss Ach ; Imagery and sensationalism, The psychology of thought, The problem of meaning / Edward Bradford Titchener; title: 5. The new psychology: directed thinking : Experimental contribution to a theory of thinking / Henry J. Watt ; Determining tendencies / Narziss Ach ; The modern psychology of thinking / Oswald Külpe ; In defense of association psychology / Georg Elias Müller; title: 6. The unit of thought : The revision of the fundamental conceptions of intellectual processes / Otto Selz ; The distinction between descriptive and functional concepts / Kurt Koffka ; The syllogism and productive thinking / Max Wertheimer. The solution of practical problems, On total insight or evidence, On learning and partial insight, On solutions through resonance / Karl Duncker.