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