本书详尽地考察了思维方法研究中的一些中心问题,并对这些领域中近十几年来的发展进行评价与批判。本书主要探讨思维过程中,概念、语言和想象的作用。在对相对能力和不同方法的范围进行估价并对其局限性进行讨论时,作者用来源不同的大量证据表明认识过程模式的形成。作者把他从动物研究、儿童发育、分析心理学、 This book examines in detail the central issues in the study of methods of thinking and evaluates and critiques those developments in the past decade or so. This book focuses on the role of concepts, language, and imagination in the thinking process. In assessing the relative abilities and the scope of different approaches and discussing their limitations, the authors used a vast body of evidence of differing sources to demonstrate the formation of cognitive process models. The author takes him from animal studies, child development, analytical psychology,