Earl Hunt

Mathematics of Behavior (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Mathematical thinking provides a clear, crisp way of defining problems. Our whole technology is based on it. What is less appreciated is that mathematical thinking can also be applied to problems in the social and behavioral sciences. This book illustrates how mathematics can be used to understand human and animal behavior, using examples in psychology, sociology, economics, ecology, and even marriage counseling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511247736
• Artikelnr.: 38205066

Autorenporträt

Earl Hunt is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has written many articles and chapters in contributed volumes and was the past editor of Cognitive Psychology and Journal of Experimental Psychology. His books include Concept Learning: An Information Processing Problem (Wiley), Experiments in Induction (Academic Press), Artificial Intelligence (Academic Press), and Will We Be Smart Enough? (Sage Foundation) which won the William James Prize from the American Psychological Association in 1996. His most recent book is Thoughts on Thought (Erlbaum, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Applying probability theory to problems in sociology and psychology
3. From physics to perception
4. When systems evolve over time
5. Non-Linear and chaotic systems
6. Defining rationality - personal and group decision making
7. How to evaluate evidence
8. Multidimensional scaling surveying the geography of the mind
9. The mathematical models behind psychological testing
10. How to know you asked a good question
11. The construction of complexity: how simple rules make the complex organizations
12. Connectionism: computation connects mind and brain
13. L'Envoi
References
Index.