Kirby, Gary R.

Thinking : an interdisciplinary approach to critical and creative thought / Gary R. Kirby, Jeffery R. Goodpaster. - 4th ed. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007. - xix, 348 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-344) and index.

What Is Thinking? -- Personal Barriers -- Sensing -- Brain and Memory -- Language: Our Thinking Medium -- Feeling -- Creative Thinking -- Organizing -- Logical Thinking -- Scientific Thinking -- Persuasive Thinking -- Problem Solving -- Evaluating -- Decision and Action -- The Challenge to Go on Thinking.

Thinking's comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach encourages a more complete and practical treatment for the student of how to think logically, critically, creatively, and persuasively.The authors wrote this book to give teachers and students a friendlier, more comprehensive, more systematic, more interdisciplinary, and thus a more effective text than any on the market.

0132209748 (pbk.) 9780132209748

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Thought and thinking.

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