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Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial issues in cognitive science/ Selected, edited, and with introductions by Marion Mason.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Dubuque, Iowa : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, c2005-Edition: 1st edDescription: xxvi, 435 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780072953282 (pbk.)
ISSN:
  • 1548-7555
Other title:
  • Clashing views on controversial issues in cognitive science
  • Issues in cognitive science
  • Cognitive science
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153 TAK
Contents:
Part One. Mind and Brain. Issue 1. Are mind and brain the same? Yes: A Review Essay: Recent Literature on Cognitive Science (1999) / Paul C.L. Tang. No: Five Dangers of Materialism (2002) / Jon Mills -- Issue 2. Do children develop theories about other people's minds? Yes: Meta-Analysis of Theory-of-Mind Development: The Truth About False Belief (2001) / Henry M. Wellman, David Cross and Julanne Watson. No: Minds, Modules, and Meta-Analysis (2001) / Brian J. Scholl and Alan M. Leslie -- Issue 3. Is mindfulness a cognitive style? Yes: Images of Mindfulness (2000) / Robert J. Sternberg. No: The Construct of Mindfulness (2000) / Ellen J. Langer and Mihnea Moldoveanu. Part Two. Concepts. Issue 4. Are we overestimating infants' math ability? Yes: How Infants Process Addition and Subtraction Events (2002) / Leslie B. Cohen and Kathryn S. Marks. No: Do Infants Have Numerical Expectations or Just Perceptual Preferences? (2002) / Karen Wynn -- Issue 5. Can infants develop abstract concepts? Yes: Perceptual and Conceptual Processes in Infancy (2000) / Jean M. Mandler. No: Commentary on Perceptual and Conceptual Processes in Infancy (2000) / Eleanor J. Gibson -- Issue 6. Is sensory information the strongest part of a stored concept? Yes: Why Is a Verb Like an Inanimate Object? (2000) / Helen Bird, David Howard and Sue Franklin. No: Sometimes a Noun Is Just a Noun: Comments on Bird, Howard, and Franklin (2001) / Kevin Shapiro and Alfonso Caramazza. Part Three. Memory. Issue 7. Is novice memory based on associations? Yes: Novice Construction of Chess Memory (2001) / Pertti Saariluoma and Tei Laine. No: Chunk Hierarchies and Retrieval Structures: Comments on Saariluoma and Laine (2001) / Fernand Gobet -- Issue 8. Is imagination inflation imaginary? Yes: Imagination Inflation: A Statistical Artifact of Regression Toward the Mean (2001) / Kathy Pezdek and Rebecca M. Eddy. No: Imagination Inflation Is a Fact, Not an Artifact: A Reply to Pezdek and Eddy (2001) / Maryanne Garry, et al. -- Issue 9. Is adult memory for childhood abuse unreliable? Yes: Adult Recollections of Childhood Abuse: Cognitive and Developmental Perspectives (1998) / Peter A. Ornstein, Stephen J. Ceci and Elizabeth F. Loftus. No: Comment on Ornstein, Ceci, and Loftus: Adult Recollections of Childhood Abuse (1998) / Judith L. Alpert, Laura S. Brown and Christine A. Courtois. Part Four. Language. Issue 10. Is context stronger than frequency? Yes: Strength of Discourse Context as a Determinant of the Subordinate Bias Effect (1999) / Charles Martin, et al. No: Contextual Strength and the Subordinate Bias Effect: Comment on Martin, Vu, Kellas, and Metcalf (1999) / Keith Rayner, Katherine S. Binder and Susan A. Duffy -- Issue 11. Is stuttering isolated from lexical retrieval? Yes: Stuttering and Lexical Retrieval (2001) / Ann Packman, et al. No: Non-Word Reading, Lexical Retrieval and Stuttering: Comments on Packman, Onslow, Coombes and Goodwin (2002) / James Au-Yeung and Peter Howell -- Issue 12. Can computer methods explain language disorders? Yes: Control and Cross-Domain Mental Computation: Evidence from Language Breakdown / William Frawley. No: Reach Exceeds Grasp: Comments on Frawley's 'Control and Cross-Domain Mental Computation: Evidence from Language Breakdown' (2002) / B. Chandrasekaran. Part Five. Intelligence. Issue 13. Is emotional intelligence really a form of intelligence? Yes: Models of Emotional Intelligence (2000) / John D. Mayer, Peter Salovey and David Caruso. No: Does Emotional Intelligence Meet Traditional Standards for an Intelligence? Some New Data and Conclusions (2001) / Richard D. Roberts, Moshe Zeidner and Gerald Matthews -- Issue 14. Is the birth order effect on intelligence real? Yes: Resolving the Debate Over Birth Order, Family Size, and Intelligence (2000) / Joseph Lee Rodgers, et al. No: The Family Dynamics of Intellectual Development (2001) / R.B. Zajonc. Part Six. Reasoning and Intuition. Issue 15. Can a neural network model account for moral development? Yes: Toward a Cognitive Neurobiology of the Moral Virtues (2001) / Paul M. Churchland. No: Moral Schemas and Tacit Judgment or How the Defining Issues Test is Supported by Cognitive Science (2002) / Darcia Narvaez and Tonia Bock -- Issue 16. Do we use reasoning to make moral decisions? Yes: A Neo-Kohlbergian Approach to Morality Research (2000) / James R. Rest, et al. No: The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment (2002) / Jonathan Haidt -- Issue 17. Is intuition a valid way of knowing? Yes: Intuition: An Important Tool in the Practice of Nursing (2001) / Helen H.I. McCutcheon and Jan Pincombe. No: A Model for Change for Evidence-Based Practice (1999) / Mary Ann Rosswurm and June H. Larrabee -- Issue 18. Should schools teach for wisdom? Yes: Why Schools Should Teach for Wisdom: The Balance Theory of Wisdom in Educational Settings (2001) / Robert J. Sternberg. No: Wisdom, Snake Oil, and the Educational Marketplace (2001) / Scott G. Paris.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One. Mind and Brain. Issue 1. Are mind and brain the same? Yes: A Review Essay: Recent Literature on Cognitive Science (1999) / Paul C.L. Tang. No: Five Dangers of Materialism (2002) / Jon Mills -- Issue 2. Do children develop theories about other people's minds? Yes: Meta-Analysis of Theory-of-Mind Development: The Truth About False Belief (2001) / Henry M. Wellman, David Cross and Julanne Watson. No: Minds, Modules, and Meta-Analysis (2001) / Brian J. Scholl and Alan M. Leslie -- Issue 3. Is mindfulness a cognitive style? Yes: Images of Mindfulness (2000) / Robert J. Sternberg. No: The Construct of Mindfulness (2000) / Ellen J. Langer and Mihnea Moldoveanu. Part Two. Concepts. Issue 4. Are we overestimating infants' math ability? Yes: How Infants Process Addition and Subtraction Events (2002) / Leslie B. Cohen and Kathryn S. Marks. No: Do Infants Have Numerical Expectations or Just Perceptual Preferences? (2002) / Karen Wynn -- Issue 5. Can infants develop abstract concepts? Yes: Perceptual and Conceptual Processes in Infancy (2000) / Jean M. Mandler. No: Commentary on Perceptual and Conceptual Processes in Infancy (2000) / Eleanor J. Gibson -- Issue 6. Is sensory information the strongest part of a stored concept? Yes: Why Is a Verb Like an Inanimate Object? (2000) / Helen Bird, David Howard and Sue Franklin. No: Sometimes a Noun Is Just a Noun: Comments on Bird, Howard, and Franklin (2001) / Kevin Shapiro and Alfonso Caramazza. Part Three. Memory. Issue 7. Is novice memory based on associations? Yes: Novice Construction of Chess Memory (2001) / Pertti Saariluoma and Tei Laine. No: Chunk Hierarchies and Retrieval Structures: Comments on Saariluoma and Laine (2001) / Fernand Gobet -- Issue 8. Is imagination inflation imaginary? Yes: Imagination Inflation: A Statistical Artifact of Regression Toward the Mean (2001) / Kathy Pezdek and Rebecca M. Eddy. No: Imagination Inflation Is a Fact, Not an Artifact: A Reply to Pezdek and Eddy (2001) / Maryanne Garry, et al. -- Issue 9. Is adult memory for childhood abuse unreliable? Yes: Adult Recollections of Childhood Abuse: Cognitive and Developmental Perspectives (1998) / Peter A. Ornstein, Stephen J. Ceci and Elizabeth F. Loftus. No: Comment on Ornstein, Ceci, and Loftus: Adult Recollections of Childhood Abuse (1998) / Judith L. Alpert, Laura S. Brown and Christine A. Courtois. Part Four. Language. Issue 10. Is context stronger than frequency? Yes: Strength of Discourse Context as a Determinant of the Subordinate Bias Effect (1999) / Charles Martin, et al. No: Contextual Strength and the Subordinate Bias Effect: Comment on Martin, Vu, Kellas, and Metcalf (1999) / Keith Rayner, Katherine S. Binder and Susan A. Duffy -- Issue 11. Is stuttering isolated from lexical retrieval? Yes: Stuttering and Lexical Retrieval (2001) / Ann Packman, et al. No: Non-Word Reading, Lexical Retrieval and Stuttering: Comments on Packman, Onslow, Coombes and Goodwin (2002) / James Au-Yeung and Peter Howell -- Issue 12. Can computer methods explain language disorders? Yes: Control and Cross-Domain Mental Computation: Evidence from Language Breakdown / William Frawley. No: Reach Exceeds Grasp: Comments on Frawley's 'Control and Cross-Domain Mental Computation: Evidence from Language Breakdown' (2002) / B. Chandrasekaran. Part Five. Intelligence. Issue 13. Is emotional intelligence really a form of intelligence? Yes: Models of Emotional Intelligence (2000) / John D. Mayer, Peter Salovey and David Caruso. No: Does Emotional Intelligence Meet Traditional Standards for an Intelligence? Some New Data and Conclusions (2001) / Richard D. Roberts, Moshe Zeidner and Gerald Matthews -- Issue 14. Is the birth order effect on intelligence real? Yes: Resolving the Debate Over Birth Order, Family Size, and Intelligence (2000) / Joseph Lee Rodgers, et al. No: The Family Dynamics of Intellectual Development (2001) / R.B. Zajonc. Part Six. Reasoning and Intuition. Issue 15. Can a neural network model account for moral development? Yes: Toward a Cognitive Neurobiology of the Moral Virtues (2001) / Paul M. Churchland. No: Moral Schemas and Tacit Judgment or How the Defining Issues Test is Supported by Cognitive Science (2002) / Darcia Narvaez and Tonia Bock -- Issue 16. Do we use reasoning to make moral decisions? Yes: A Neo-Kohlbergian Approach to Morality Research (2000) / James R. Rest, et al. No: The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment (2002) / Jonathan Haidt -- Issue 17. Is intuition a valid way of knowing? Yes: Intuition: An Important Tool in the Practice of Nursing (2001) / Helen H.I. McCutcheon and Jan Pincombe. No: A Model for Change for Evidence-Based Practice (1999) / Mary Ann Rosswurm and June H. Larrabee -- Issue 18. Should schools teach for wisdom? Yes: Why Schools Should Teach for Wisdom: The Balance Theory of Wisdom in Educational Settings (2001) / Robert J. Sternberg. No: Wisdom, Snake Oil, and the Educational Marketplace (2001) / Scott G. Paris.