Thought and Knowledge

Diane F. Halpern is Dean of Social Sciences Emerita at the Minerva Schools at KGI and Professor Emerita at Claremont McKenna College. She is a past president of the American Psychological Association, the Western Psychological Association, the Society for General Psychology, and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Professor Halpern has won many awards for her teaching and research, including the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (2013); the Arthur W. Staats Lecture on Unifying Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association (2013); Outstanding Professor Award from the Western Psychological Association (2002); American Psychological Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching (1999); Distinguished Career Award for Contributions to Education from the American Psychological Association (1996); and the California State University's State-Wide Outstanding Professor Award.

1. Thinking: An Introduction. 2: Thinking Starts Here: Memory as the Mediator Of Cognitive Processes. 3. The Relationship Between Thought and Language. 4. Reasoning: Drawing Deductively Valid Conclusions. 5. Analyzing Arguments. 6. Thinking as Hypothesis Testing. 7. Likelihood and Uncertainty: Understanding Probabilities. 8. Decision Making: It is a Matter of Choice. 9. Development of Problem Solving Skills. 10. Creative Thinking. 11. The Last Word. Appendix: List of Critical Thinking Skills.