INDEX

Note: Italic f and t refer to figures and table respectively.

A

acceptable premises 2467

acquisition 7483

active learning 93

Adams, J. L. 550; Conceptual Blockbusting 502

adequate grounds 251

advance organizers 80

advertisement, role of inference in 11619

Advertising Age 526

affective forecasting 367

affirming the antecedent 188

affirming the consequent 1889

Alferink, Larry 330

algorithms 410, 5467

Allan, R. A. 7

Allan, Teresa 545

Allen, James L. 44

Allport, Gordon W. 86, 3013

Amabile, Teresa M. 511, 5378

ambiguity 13941

American Management Association 5

American Psychiatric Association 130

Ammirati, Rachel 105, 408

analogies 1248, 277, 4947, 52931

analyzing arguments 2589

anatomy of a problem 4547

anchoring 1489

Anderson, B. F. 181

anecdotes 3245

Animal Farm (Orwell) 131

antecedent 187

appeals 270, 273, 2767, 279

Appleton-Knapp, S. L. 16

Arbitman-Smith, R. 127

Archer, T. 522

Archimedes 530

arguments: and actively open-minded thinking 2436; analyzing 2589; anatomy of 2329; diagramming the structure of 23943; evaluating the strength of 24658; explaining as knowing 26681; against the person 26970; persuasion and propaganda 2646; template for writing 25964; visual 2826

Ariely, D. 10, 149

Aristotle 124

Arkes, Hal R. 380, 405

Armor, David A. 386, 415

Aronson, E. 223, 264

Arum, Richard 17

“as if” statement 455

Asimov, Isaac 34

assessing risks 3856, 4278

association effects 268

associative networks 5961, 59f

assumptions 237

Atkinson, R. C. 99

attention, paying 758

attitudes, changing with syllogisms 21718

attribute listing 5456

Australian Skeptics Society 306

authority, appeals to 277

automatic memory 73

automatic thinking 9

availability heuristic 41013

averages 38890

Avnim-Pesso, Liora 421

awareness of noncognitive factors 83

awareness without memory 624

B

Ball, Linden J. 178

bandwagon technique 270

Bargh, John 434

Barkun, M. 329

Barnum, P. T. 34

barometers of thought 14951

Baron, J. 405

Baron, Jonathan 429

Barzan, George. 20

Basadur, M. 466

Basadur, T. 466

base-rate neglect 3679

because statements 242

Bechky, B. A. 522

Beecher, Henry Ward 136

Begley, Sharon 224

behavior, predictably irrational 10

belief bias 178, 185

beliefs, how to change 2856

Bell, Alexander Graham 496

Bell, C. 281

Benassi, Victor 321, 327

Berger, D. 411

Bergman, Ingrid 88

beyond a reasonable doubt 198, 338

biased discounting 427

biased samples 298301, 389

biases: in decision making 4289; in memory 1057; in risk assessment 3868

Bible Code (Drosnin) 347

Binet, A. 31, 33

bionics 532

bisociative thinking 518

Bjork, R. A. 16

black or white fallacies 272

Blink (Gladwell) 40

Bloom, P. 325

Bluedorn, Hans 270

Boden, Margaret A. 525

Boninger, Faith 12

Bonnefon, Jean-Francoise 143, 435

bounded rationality 401, 221

Bower, G. H. 158, 420

Boxer, Barbara 413

brain research 445

brainstorming 4912, 5412

Bransford, J. D. 93, 127

Brennan, Tim 237

Brennan, William J. 139

Brock, Bill 5

Brown, A. L. 17

Brown, Rex V. 429

browsing 5489

Bruer, J. T. 27

Buffet, Warren 265

Bugliosi, V.: Till Death Us Do Part 127

Bunche, Ralph 460

Buonomano, D. 601

bureaucratese 1413

Bush, George W. 35, 678, 21415

Butler, H. A. 20

C

Calder, Alexander 515, 518

Campione, J. C. 17

Campos, A. 549

candidates for office, goals of 12

cards 3512

card stacking 2734

Carey, J. 7

Carkhuff, R. R. 4401

Carlson, E. 249, 497

Carrol, Lewis 58, 119, 200

Caspe, W. 460

categorical reasoning 201

categories 1323

causal direction reversal 544

causal relationship 3089

cause and effect 306, 310

Ceci, S. J. 92

Center for Science in the Public Interest 34, 35

Chabris, C. F. 61

chained conditionals 1969

Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas 535

chance events 3434

Chang, J. 122

change blindness blindness 62

Chatterjee, Sumana 556

checklists, creative ideas 5425

Cheng, P. W. 1956

choices, decision making 4023

Christie-Davies’ Theorem 339

Chronicle of Higher Education 45

chunking 912

Cialdini, R. B. 444; “World’s Greatest Car Salesman” 41819

circle diagrams 2029, 204f, 21517

circular reasoning 274

classical conditioning 669

class inclusion rules 159

Clinton, Bill 1011, 254

closed mind 21

cognitive dissonance 4434

cognitive economy 133

cognitive interview 1045

cognitive nudge 4225

cognitive process instruction 10

Cognitive Reflection Test 36

Cold Reading 3068

Cole K. C. 321

collective intelligence 498

college graduates, thinking skills of 5

combinatorial reasoning 199200

communication: and comprehension of language 11416, 115f; rules for 11924

comparisons, incomplete 2778

comprehension and memory 7880

comprehension of language 15169; concept maps 15667; guidelines 1689; re-representation 1525; spatial representation of thought 1678; strategies for 1512

concept maps 15667; hierarchies 158; linear arrays 1567, 157f; matrices 1647, 164t, 165f, 166f; networks 15864, 158f, 160t

Conceptual Blockbusting (Adams) 502

conclusion indicators 236

conclusions 1756, 2356; of arguments 233; based on evidence 2634; supported by premises 2505

conditional logic 186

confidence judgments, degree of 94

confirmation bias 1056, 185, 1925, 2445, 4069

confounding 300

conjunction error 35861

conscientiousness 5357

conscious memory 634

consensus-seeking 245

consequences, evaluation of 4259

consequent 187

consistent premises 2478

conspiracy theories 32930

Consumer Reports 165

context to evaluate meaning 123, 1468

contingency relationships 186

continuum 275

contradiction 4934

contrast to evaluate meaning 1468

control of variables 3089

convenience samples 300

convergent structures 241

convergent validity 318

correlated variables 315

counter arguments 2389

counter examples 544

creative ideas checklists 5425

creative thinking 51054; as a cognitive process 52233; defined 51121; encouraging creativity 5339; as a group process 522; strategies for 53950

credibility 24950

critical thinking 154; cultural influences on 504; and decision making 4024; defined 79; goals of 558; Hollywood style 4951; improvement of 1318; and intelligence 2733; learning to think critically 1827; media depictions of 4951; need for 213; process model 28f; short-cut to 3444; thinking about 449; and unconscious memory 64

Crovitz, H. F. 5467

crowdsourcing 498

Csikszentmihaly, Mihaly 521, 538

cues generation for retrieval 82

cultural influences on critical thinking 504

cumulative probabilities 3612

curiosity 5357

D

Dahlstrom, W. Grant 298

Dansereau, Donald F. 400

Danziger, Shai 421

Darrow, Clarence 62, 452

Davis, G. A. 543

Dawes, R. M. 320, 332

Day, R. S. 166

death premonitions 345

De Bono, Edward 513, 547

decision frames 4312

decision making 3, 397450; biases in 4289; commitment and evaluation 4436; emotions and 43; evaluating consequences 4259; making sound decisions 399405; pitfalls and pratfalls in 40525; preparing a worksheet 42943; probabilistic 3712; satisficers 41

declarative memory 72

Decyk, B. N. 134

deductive method 2945

deductive reasoning 1801

definitions and control of thought 1302

degree of confidence judgments 94

degrees of belief 3445

De Neys, Wim 143

denying the antecedent 189

denying the consequent 188

dependent variables 297

descriptive and prescriptive processes 405

desirable outcome 560

detour problems 480

Dewey, John 10, 5356

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) 130

diagrams 46976; and argument structure 239342; circle 2029, 204f, 21517; linear 1824; reasoning with 2224; tree 1879

dimensional comparison 440

direct analogy 496

Disraeli 388

dissonance 4434

distortion in memory 86

distributed 210

double blind procedures 327

doublespeak 122

Douglas Dispatch 255

dreams and probability 345

Dreman, D. 378

Driver, R. 239

Drosnin, M.: Bible Code 347

Druyan, Ann 105

DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) 130

Dubois, Didier 435

Dunbar, K. 126, 4667

Duncker, K. 48

Dunning, Brian 277

E

ecological validity 212

education 6

Edward, J. N. 178

effortful memory 72

Einstein, Albert 47, 58

Ekman, Paul 123, 129

elderly and mnemonic devices 101

elimination by aspects 4289

emotional language 1379

emotions: in critical thinking 423; and decision making 4201

employee skills 56

encoding specificity 82

entrapment 41517

episodic memory 712

equivocation 13941

Erdelyi, Matthew Hugh 106

errors and hypotheses testing 3215

etymology and reification 141

Euclid 7

euphemism 1413

evaluation 281, 310, 4256, 443, 5256

evaluation stage 458

Evans, Jonathan St. B. T. 178

events remembering 1045

evidence: disconfirming 4069; historical 24550

executive processes 557

expected values 3626

experimental design plans 31012

expert intuition 39

experts 2489, 497

explaining 1535, 2668

exposure 41920

external memory aids 96, 103

extrapolation 3912, 544

extrinsic motivation 538

F

Facione, P. A. 1516

FactCheck.org 66

facts 27981

failure to accept 1778

fallacies 26881

Fallacy of False Cause 315

false cause 278

false dichotomies 2723

false memories 878

false positives 37981

false premises 21112

familiarization stage 458

fantasy analogy 4967

Fargier, Hélene 435

fast and frugal 412, 429

feelings of knowing judgments 94

Feeney, Aidan 143

Ferguson, Geraldine 151

Festinger, Leon 443

Feynman, Richard 5367; What Do You Care What Other People Think? 536

Fields, W. C. 497

Finke, R. A. 525

Fiorina, Carly 413

first letter mnemonic devices 1012

Fischer, S. C. 445

Fischhoff, B. 262

Fisher, R 445

Fiske, Susan 85

Fixx, J. F. 37

Flat Earth Society 4

flexibility 212

Fogarty, J. 13

Foltz, K. 7

foot-in-the-door 444

foregone conclusion 446

forethought 445

forgetting 889

forward-looking strategy 485

four-card selection task 1924

framework for decision making 4002, 401f

framework for thinking 55660

framing 1446, 4312

frequencies, thinking with 3789

frequency format 379

Freud, Sigmund 127, 443

Frost, Robert 403

functional fixedness 5004

Futrell, Mary Hatwood 454

G

Gaissmaier, W. 380

Galilei, Galileo 190

Gallup Poll 328

Gambler’s Fallacy 36971

games of chance 3514

Gardner, H. 513

Gawrilow, Caterina 198

Gelder, T. van 14

geneplore 5256

generalization 299, 4867

generic-parts technique 500

generic questions 1545

genius 51415

Gervais, Simon 348

getting to yes 445

Gick, M. L. 494

Gifford-Jones, W. 413

Gigerenzer, Gerd 41, 343, 354, 360, 378, 411

Gilovich, Thomas 346, 370

given/new distinction 129

givens 455

Gladwell, Malcolm 143; Blink 40

Glaser, Robert 184

Glock, Sabine 443

Glucksberg, S. 489

goal setting for critical thinking 51

goal state 455

Godfrey, Sue 541

Gollwitzer, Peter 198

Goncalo, J. A. 534

Gonzalez, M. A. 548

good enough alternative 41, 441

Goodwin, G. P. 184

Gordon, W. J. J. 495, 51819

Gore, Al 66, 678

Gottfreddson, L. S. 29

Gottlieb, Michael C. 431

Gould, Stephen Jay 303

graphic organizers. see concept maps

graphs 46996

grit 460

Groopman, Jerome 41, 42

groups and creativity 522

group think 25, 40910

guilt by association 268

Gunther, M. 3512

Gutenberg, Johannes 518

H

habit of planning 21

Halpern, Diane F. 14, 15, 415

Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment 15

Hammond, Kenneth 405

Handelsman, Mitchell N. 431

Hannay, Timo 293

Hargadon, A. B. 522

Harman, G. 233

Haskins, Greg R. 265

Heinonen, Olli-Pekka 537

Hell, Benedikt 535

Heller, R. 460

Henle, M. 1767

Hennessy, Beth A. 511, 537

heuristics 41015, 458

Hibbs, Al 353

hierarchical trees 4746

hierarchies 158

Hill, Benny 346

hindsight 4456

hints 48990

historical evidence 2456

Hitler, Adolph 264; Mein Kampf 131

Hole, Fred 539

Holland, J.: Induction 294

Holley, C. D. 159

Holt, John 314

Holyoak, K. J. 1956, 494, 495

How to Lie With Statistics (Huff) 388

How to Win at Poker (Moss) 912

Huff, D.: How to Lie With Statistics 388

Hummel, J. E. 495

Hutchings, Patricia 533

Hyman, Ray 306

hypothesis testing 292336; determining cause 30821; and occult beliefs and the paranormal 32730; population and samples 298305; process 297; science versus science fiction 3058; and scientific thinking 3302; and self-fulfilling prophesies 3267; thinking errors 3215; understanding 2928

I

ideational fluency 5478

“if, and only if” 196

“if, then” statements 1867, 1902, 1979

ill-defined problems 4613

illicit conversions 219

illogical conclusions 176

illusion of truth 646

illusory correlation 317

illusory validity 31920

images 469, 969, 549, 554

implicit memory 634

inappropriate analogies 277

incidental learning 73

incomplete comparisons 2778

incubation 4589, 52631

independent events 356

independent variables 297

Induction (Holland) 294

inductive method 2945

inductive reasoning 1801

inert knowledge 82

inference in memory 86

inference stage 405

influences, unconscious 4212

information explosion 745

information gathering 5489

initial state 455

insight 459, 52631

instruction model for critical thinking 1827

intelligence 29, 30, 334

intelligence quotient (IQ) 2930

intentional learning 73

interference theory of forgetting 889

internal memory aids 96

Internet 3; for crowdsourcing 498; for information evaluation 281

in the long run 340, 342, 346, 363

intimate engagement 460

intrinsic motivation 538

intuition 3740

intuition and hypothesis testing 3302

Invention Convention 517

investment theory of creativity 5201

IQ (intelligence quotient) 2930

irrelevant reasons 2745

Irwin, F. W. 415

isolation of variables 308

Izawa, Chizuko 75

J

James, William 83

James Randi Educational Foundation 11

Janik, A. 268

Janis, Irving 40910, 435

Jennings, Garret 34

Johnson, Samuel 69

Johnson, Wendell 321

Johnson-Laird, Philip 45, 184, 323

Jones, E. A. 8

judgments 41, 3813

judgment stage 458

K

Kahane, Howard 175

Kahneman, Daniel 33, 35, 3840, 348, 35860, 411, 5267

Kamal-Smith, Emily 178

Kaufman, Joanne 130

Kekulé, A. 478

Kellogg, R. T. 1689

Keren, Gideon 342

Kimmel, H. E. 426

King, Alison 1535

Kingsolver, Barbara 105

Kiuhn, Deanna 295

Klauer, Karl 212

Klein, Gary 5267

Kluger, Jeffrey 384

Knapp, Samuel 431

Kneer, Julia 443

Knight, Kevin 400

knowing judgments 94

knowing the unknowable 278

knowledge structures 7

knowledge workers 5

Koestler, A. 518

Konnikova, Maria 445

Koriat, A. 262

Kosonen, P. 16

Kraft, Ulrich 515

Kruglanski, Arie W. 406

L

labels 1323, 1389

Landfield, Kristin 105, 408

Langer, E. J. 24

language 11273; analogy and metaphor 1248; communication 11416, 115f; comprehension 15169; emotional 1379; implications and Inference 11619; and influence on thought 13551; psycholinguistics 11416; rules for clear communication 11924; underlying representation and surface structure 11416; words and their meanings 12935

La Place, Pierre Simon 338

large numbers, law of 3012

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 319

lateral thinking 51314, 525

law of large numbers 3012

law of small numbers 304

laws of chance 3423

leads to link 159

learning: distribution of 802; incidental 73; intentional 73; organization for 7980; strategies that promote 7583

learning to think critically 1826

Leblois, Sylvie 435

Leedy, Paul D. 292

Lehman, D. R. 1516

Leippe, M. R. 1478

Lempert, R. O. 1516

Lepke, Louis 132

Lepore, Ernie 137

Levav, Jonathan 421

Levine, M. 460

Lewandowsky, Stephan 87, 88

Lewinsky, Monica 254

Lichtenstein, A. 262

likelihood 33941, 3469

liking 418

Lilienfeld, Scott O. 105, 408, 560

linear arrays 1567, 157f

linear diagrams 1824

linear ordering 181200; bias 1925; combinational reasoning 199200; conditionals 1968; diagrams 1824, 1879; “if” reasoning 1902, 196, 1979; schemata 1956; truth and validity confusion 1847

linear syllogism. see linear ordering

Lionni, Leo 122

Literary Digest 299

Lochhead, J. 476

loci 1001

logic 17680

long-term memory 69, 714, 106

Lorayne, Harry 95, 96

Los Angeles Times 223

Lowenfeld, V. 540

Lubart, T. I. 520

lying truthfully 123

M

Madison, James 6

main point 237

Mankato Area Chamber & Convention Bureau 281

Mann, L. 435, 4423

Mannix, E. 519

Marin, L. 15

marked adjectives 184

Martin, Peter 520

Marx, Karl 141

Massey, Cade 386, 415

matrices 1647, 164t, 165f, 166f, 4769

Mayer, R. E. 156, 4678

McCaffrey, T. 500

McGuire, W. J. 2201, 544

McHardy, Peter 545

McKeachie, Wilbert J. 13

McKee, Martin 263

mean 389

meaning, monitoring 7880

means–ends analysis 4824

measurement sensitivity 2978

measures of central tendency 389

measuring intelligence 314

Medawar, B. 514

media depictions of critical thinking 4951

median 389

Mednick, M. T. 532

Mednick, S. A. 532

Meet the Press 21415

Mein Kampf (Hitler) 131

meliroists 4089

Melwani, S. 534

memory 55111; acquisition of 7483; aids 96; beliefs about 6174; biases in 1057; and creative thinking 526; metamemory 924; mnemonics 95107; retention 838; retrieval 8892

memory trace theories 153

mental set 5004

mere exposure effect 41920

Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G. van 402

metacognition 27

metamemory 812, 923

metaphors 1245, 4947

method of places mnemonic devices 1001

middle term 210

Miller, James E. 114

Milne, A. A. 461

mind control 11

mindfulness 24

mindlessness 24, 429

missing components 2557

mnemonics 95105; first letters 1013; methods of places 1001; pegwords and images 96100; principles of 1023; rhymes 100

mock-ups (miniature models) 481

model representations 47980

Molnar, Alex 12

Mondrian, Piet 515

Money magazine 348

monitoring meaning 7880

Monosoff, Tamara 517

mood 201

Morales, Michael 87

Moss, John: How to Win at Poker 912

motivated reasoning 2245

motivation, types of 5379

motor memory 72

Mueller, J. S. 534

multiple outcomes 354

multitasking 3

Munby, Hugh A. 199

Munson, R. 317

Murphy’s Law 425

Museum of Tolerence 67

Myers, David 37

N

Naeve, Lowell 132

Nakamura, Jeanne 521

name calling 1379

Nardi, A. 399

Narens, L. 93

NASA 408

Nathan, George Jean 246

natural language 236

natural risks 387

Neale, M. A. 519

need to know, changes in 5

negation 146

negative correlation 316

Nelson, George (Pinky) 330

Nelson, T. O. 93

Netherlands research in critical thinking 15

Nettick, Vera 3512

networks 15864, 158f, 160t

Newell, A. 455, 456, 467

Newton, P. 239

Nickerson, R. S. 232, 262

1984 (Orwell) 11, 131

Nisbett, R. E. 1516

nodes 1878

noncognitive factors in memory retrieval 83

noncritical thinking 9

nondirected thinking 9

nonregressive judgments 3813

non sequitur, 274

Norlander, T. 522

Norman, Donald 62, 96

noticing 516

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Thaler and Sunstein) 422

nudging a decision 4225

numbers, problems with 4412

O

Obama, Barack 66

Oberauer, Klaus 87

objective probability 366

obligation schema 1956

O’Brien, Barbara 192

occult beliefs and hypothesis testing 3279

odds 3412, 341f

Odean, Terrance 348

Oettingen, Gabriele 198

Oliner, S. P. 561

Oliver, Patrick 466

omission bias 428

operational definitions 2956

opinion 279

opinions 11, 27981

optimism 415

optimization 430

organization 802

“or rule” 3612

Orwell, George 11; Animal Farm 131

Osborn, Alex Faickney 511

Osborne, J. 239, 4912

overall assessments 43840

overconfidence 3489, 40910

overlearning 823

P

paradigms 523

paranormal and hypothesis testing 3279

Paranormal Challenge 11

Park, C. Whan 532

Parsons, Jim 238

particular affirmative 201

particular negative 201

Partnership for 21st Century Skills (2004) 6

Part–whole fallacies 276

Pascal, Blaise 20

Pasteur, Louis 255

Patton, B. 445

Pauling, Linus 491, 538

Paulos, John Allen 298, 379

Pavlov, Ivan 667

Peck, J. 132

Pedone, R. 495

pegwords 969

Perez, M. J. 549

Perkins, D. N. 548

permission schema 1956

persistence 21, 4601, 5357

personal analogy 4956

personality factors 5345

personal logic 178

perspective taking 4445

persuaders, analogies as 127

persuasion 2646

Pfeiffer, K. R. 2223

Piaget, Jean 199

pitfalls and pratfalls in decision making 40525; cognitive nudge 4225; disconfirming evidence 4069; emotional states 4201; entrapment 41317; heuristics 41015, 41315; liking 418; mere exposure effect 41920; overconfidence 40910; psychological reactance 41718; reciprocity 41819; unconscious influences 4212; wishful thinking 415

placebo 345, 310

places as mnemonic devices 1001

planning 201

Plus, Minus, Interesting (PMI) 547

Pogrow, S. 168

polite speech 1436

Political Ad Critic website 678

political speech 1436

politics, critical thinking in 234

Pollyanna Principle 415

Polya, George 220, 458, 482, 494, 557

popularity 270

population 298305

positive correlation 315

Power Balance LLC 45

practice at retrieval 153

pragmatic 17680

pratfalls, see pitfalls and pratfalls in decision making

Pratkanis, A. R. 264

precise statistics 390

predictions based on combined information 3728

prejudice and memory 856

premature closure 432

premise indicators 2345

premises 176, 2335, 234, 2505, 291

preparation stage 458

preponderance of evidence 339

prescriptive and descriptive processes 405

previous investment 41517

pride, appeals to 273

Prince, G. M. 512

prior knowledge 845

probabilistic reasoning 21921

probability 33796; decision making 37183; and expected values 3626; judgments about likelihood and uncertainty 3469; nature of the world 33846; and risk 38492; subjective 36671; using 34962

probability format 3789

probabilogical 2201

probable conclusion 180

problem-based learning 454

problem planning and representation: multiple statements of the goal 4636; representation of the problem space 46680; representation selection 4801

problem solving 451509; anatomy of a problem 4547; planning and representation 46381; problem defined 4524, 453f; problems 5004; stages in 45861; well-defined and ill-defined problems 4613

problem solving aids 126

problem space 455, 525

procedural memory 72

production stage 458

professional intuition 37

propaganda 11, 2646

prophecies, self-fulfilling 3267

propositional logic 186

prospective memory 103

prospective research 314

prototypes 1335, 272

prototypical thinking 1335

psycholinguistics 114

psychological reactance 41718

psychology, cognitive 10

psychology of reasons 26570

Public Opinion Laboratory 3

public opinion polls 14951

push polls 150

put downs 278

Q

qualifiers 238

quality of learning judgments 934

quantifiers 201, 21617

questioning 1535

R

RAND Corporation 1656

Randi, James 11, 306

random search 4878

Rapp, David N. 248

rationalization 2614

reasoned judgment 278, 27981

reasoning 174230; and argument 2334; categorical 201; combinational 199200; in everyday contexts 2215; inductive and deductive 18099; and linear ordering 18199; logical and psychological 17580; probabilistic 21921; syllogistic 20019

reciprocal peer questioning 1534

reciprocity 41819

recognition heuristic 412

regression toward a mean 382

reification 141

relational algorithm 5467

relative frequencies 385

reliability of a measure 321

remembering, guide for monitoring the process of 94t

Remote Association Test 5323

Renshon, Jonathan 426

representation of problem space 46680, 467f, 471f; detour problems 480; hierarchical trees 4746; matrix 4769

representativeness heuristic 41315

representative samples 299

re-representation 152

Resnick, L. B. 7

Restak, Richard M. 556

retention 838

retrieval of memories 8892

retrospective experiments 314

retrospective review 446

rhymes as mnemonic devices 100

Richards, Beah 216

Rieger, Diana 443

Rieke, R. 268

risk averse 1445

risks: assessing 3868, 4268; cumulative 3612; and decision making 3848

Rodin, G. C. 166

Rogers, Will 246

Rogerson, Mark D. 431

Rokeach, M. 21

Roksa, Josipa 17

Romney, Mitt 66

Roosevelt, Theodore 117

Rorschach test 320

roulette 3523

Roweton, W. 543

Rubenstein, M. F. 2223

Ruiz, A. I. 92

rules 4889; communication 11924; for determining validity 20911, 210t, 211t; of hierarchies 159

Russell, Bertrand 2

Russert, Tim 21415

S

Sagan, Carl 22, 105

Saltzstein, H. D. 460

samples 298305, 301, 388

Sapir, E. 1356

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity 1356

satisficing 41, 441

Saville, George 221

Sawyer, K. 522

Schauble, Leona 184

Schneider, D. J. 560

Schoenfeld, A. H. 482

schools 1213

scientific method and hypothesis testing 3056

Scriven, Michael 221

search for meaning 3467

search stage 405

Sears, Alan 238

Seech, Z. 244

self-criticism 23

self-fulfilling prophecies 3267

self-justification 23

self-regulation 21

Seligman, M. 415

semantic memory 72

semantic slanting 1389

sensitivity 51520

serendipdity 51520

Seth, Rajesh 534

Shaklee, H. 3612

Shermer, Michael 35, 42, 245, 324, 345

Shiffrar, Maggie 540

short run 346

significant differences 3901

Silver, N. 348

Simmons, Joseph P. 386, 415

Simon, Herbert A. 401, 4556, 459

Simons, D. J. 61

Singer, Barry 327

Singmann, Henrik 212

situation awareness 4567

skills, intelligence and thinking 27

skills approach for crtical thinking 51

slippery slope 275

slips of the tongue 90

small numbers, law of 304

Smith, Daniel 534

Smith, S. M. 525

snobbery, appeals to 273

Snyder, M. 85

solution paths 455

sound arguments 25964

Sparks, Jesse R. 248

spatial representation of thought 1678

specialization 4867

Spiker, V. A. 8

split-half method 4901

spread of activation 5289

Stalin, Joseph 561

Stanford-Binet test 32

Stanovich, Keith E. 29, 31, 244

statement, in argument 240

state of understanding 7

statistical prediction against intuition 37

statistics 3456, 388

Stein, B. S. 127

Steinem, Gloria 500

stereotypes: and categorization 133; and memory 856

Sternberg, R. J. 30, 520, 52930

stimuli, subliminal 689

Stoltzfus, E. R. 166

strategies: for comprehension 1512; for creative thinking 53940; for decision making 4002, 401f; for problem solving 48299; that promote learning 7583

straw person 2756

Stritzke, Werner 87

structure mapping 125

Stuckler, David 263

Studdert-Kennedy, Michael 113

Stumm, Sophie von 535

Stupple, Edward J. N. 178

subarguments 237

subgoal 482

subjective probability 3669

subjective utility 4024

subliminal stimuli 689

sub-problems 482

sunk cost 416

Sunstein, Cass R.: Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness 422

suppressed information 2734

surface structure 11416

Svensson, N. 522

syllogism, defined 201

syllogistic reasoning 20119; changing attitudes with 21718; and circle diagrams 2029, 21517; and ecological validity 21215; errors in 21819; in everyday contexts 2212; and false premises 21112; quantifiers 201, 21617; and validity determination 20211

symbol analysts 5

symbolic activity 496

Synectics group 4956

synergy 51520

System 1 Thinking 357, 40

System 2 Thinking 40

systems approach to creativity 521

Szent-Gjorgy, Albert 533

T

Tallyrand 273

Taseer, S. 561

Tavris, C. 223

Teigen, Karl Halvor 342

Terman, Lewis 31

testimonials 270

testing 18

Tetlock, Philip E. 261

Thaler, Richard H.: Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness 422

Theory of Inventive Problem Solving 493

therefore statements 242

Think! Bar 34

thinking 153; as a biological process 456; defined 78; with frequencies 3789; improvements in 1318; and learning 1827; skills, need for 213; skills and intelligence 2734; types of 3544

thinking outside the box 520

Thinking Skills Review Group 14

thought, definitions and the control of 1302

thought, influence of language on 1367

thought and knowledge: defined 67

three stage experimental design 31012

Till Death Us Do Part (Bugliosi) 127

Time Magazine 74

Torrence Test of Creative Thinking 549

Toulmin, S. 268

Townsend, Robert 282

traditions, appeals to 279

transcontextual 464

transfer of training 1718, 256

tree diagrams 18790, 3556, 487f

trial-and-error 4878

truths 132

Tversky, Amos 358, 360, 405, 411

Twain, Mark 122, 390, 522

2/3 Ideal Rule 4401

Tzeng, J. 163

U

unanimous decisions 40910

unbiased samples 298301

uncertainty 33941, 3469, 4012, 4256

unconscious influences 434, 4212

unconscious memory 634

underlying representation of language 11416

universal affirmative 201

universal negative 201

unmarked adjectives 184

Uranowitz, S. W. 85

Ury, W. 445

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force 380

U.S. Supreme Court 139

V

vagueness 13941

valid conclusion 176

validity: and hypothesis testing 31718; rules for determining 20911, 210t, 211t

Van Gelder T. 15

von Oech, R. 518

variability 3035

variables 297

variables, isolation and control of 3089

varieties of memory 6974

Vaugn, J. L. 1567

Venezuela evaluation study 14

Verbal Comprehension Score 31

vertical thinking 51314

virtue by association 268

Visiwords (website) 1678

visual arguments 2826

visualization 1678

visual thinking 54950

voluntary risk 387

Vye, N. J. 127

Vygotsky, Lev 301

W

WAIS (Wechler Adult Intelligence Scale) 31, 32f, 33

Wales, C. E. 399

Wallas, Graham 458

Ward, T. B. 525

Wason, P. C. 4067

weak and inappropriate analogies 277

weasel phrases 117

Wechsler, David 31

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) 31, 32f, 33

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) 31

weighing in worksheet preparation 4358

Weinberger, J. 68

Weisberg, R. W. 489, 515

Weisel, Elie 64

well-defined problems 463

Wells, Herbert George 343

West, Richard F 243

Westen, D. 68

What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Feynman) 536

What’s the Harm website 11

Whimbey, A. 476

Whiting, C. S. 543

Whorf, B. 1356

Wickens, T. D. 16

Wicklegren, W. 463

Wiig, K. M. 457

Willard, Ralph 74

Williams, Lawrence 434

willingness to plan 21

willingness to self-correct 223

Winerman, Lea 2

Winne, P. H. 16

WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) 31

wishful thinking 415

Woodward, Bob 35

word meanings and language 12935

word origins, study of 141

words, choice of 1379

workforce 5

working backwards 4856

working memory 6971

worksheet preparation for decision making 42943; alternatives 4323, 4358; calculation 4389; comparisons 4401; considerations 4335; framing the decision 4312; optimization 430; problems in 4413

“World’s Greatest Car Salesman” (Cialdini) 41819

world view constraints 504

writer’s block 548

writing aids 1689

Y

Yalow, Rosalyn S. 326

Younggren, Jeffrey 431

Z

Zimbardo, P. G. 1478