Cognitive psychology and the mind: The best textbooks summarized

Summaries per chapter with A Life in Error, From Little Slips to Big Disasters

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• Chapter 1 - What are the nature and varieties of human error?
• Chapter 2 - Plans lead to Actions and Consequences
• Chapter 3 - Skill-based, Rule-based and Knowledge-based performances
• Chapter 4 - Slips and Lapses when Absent-Minded
• Chapter 5 - Individual Differences
• Chapter 6 - SIML in the Courtroom
• Chapter 7- The New Freudian Slip
• Chapter 8 - Failures in planning
• Chapter 9 - Violations
• Chapter 10 - Organizational Accidents
• Chapter 11 - Resisting Change in Organizational Culture
• Chapter 12 - Medical Error
• Chapter 13 - Disclosing Error
• Chapter 14 - Looking back

What is Cognition by Chun and Most about?

Summaries per chapter with Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind

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Summaries per chapter with Critical Thinking

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Summaries per chapter with Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making

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• Chapter 2 - What sparks the passion for procedures?
• Chapter 3 - How can the invisible be seen?
• Chapter 4 - How biased is our thinking?
• Chapter 5 - How do intuition and analysis compare or differ?
• Chapter 6 - How can intuition and analysis be blended to make rapid decisions?
• Chapter 7 - Why do experts sometimes commit errors?
• Chapter 8 - How can decisions be automated?
• Chapter 9 - When is more less?
• Chapter 10 - When is practice a vice?
• Chapter 11 - What are the limits of feedback?
• Chapter 12 - How can one connect the dots when it comes to sensemaking?
• Chapter 13 - Do we think like computers?
• Chapter 14 - When is it time for moving targets?
• Chapter 15 - What are

What are the two systems? - Part 1

What is the distinction between System 1 and System 2? – Chapter 1

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