TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruner,Jerome S.
AU  - Goodnow,Jacqueline J.
AU  - Austin,George A.
TI  - A study of thinking
T2  - Social science classics series
SN  - 0887386563 (paperback)
AV  - BF 455 .B75 1986 
PY  - 1986///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.
PB  - Transaction Books
KW  - Thought and thinking
N1  - Reprint. Originally published: New York : Wiley, 1956;  with a new preface by Jerome S. Bruner and Jacqueline J. Goodnow ; appendix on language by Roger W. Brown; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This is a pioneering account of how human beings achieve a measure of rationality in spite of the constraints imposed by bias, limited attention and memory, and the risks of error proscribed by pressures of time and ignorance. This seminal study was a major event in the cognitive revolution of the 1950s, and four decades later is still read as a major contribution to our understanding of the mind
ER  -