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Efficient cognition : the evolution of representational decision making / Armin W. Schulz.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Schulz, Armin W., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Decision making.
Human behavior.
Behavioral assessment.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
Summary:
An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.
Contents:
Foundations
Investigating the evolution of representational decision making
The nature and reality of representational decision making
A moderate evolutionary psychology
The need for a new account of the evolution of representational decision making
The evolution of cognitive representational decision making
The evolution of conative representational decision making
Extended representational decision making : a synthesis
Specialist vs. generalist decision making
The psychological underpinnings of helping behaviors
Conclusion
References
Notes
Index.
Notes:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ISBN:
0-262-34527-7
0-262-34526-9
OCLC:
1024080190

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