Relational Thinking Styles and Natural Intelligence: Assessing Inference Patterns for Computational Modeling

Relational Thinking Styles and Natural Intelligence: Assessing Inference Patterns for Computational Modeling

Phyllis Chiasson, Jayne Tristan

Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 281

ISBN13: 9781466609723|ISBN10: 1466609729|EISBN13: 9781466609730

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0972-3

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Chiasson, Phyllis, and Jayne Tristan. Relational Thinking Styles and Natural Intelligence: Assessing Inference Patterns for Computational Modeling. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0972-3

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The science of intelligence has created a plethora of theories and measurements, which have various applications of both computational, social, and managerial significance.

Relational Thinking Styles and Natural Intelligence: Assessing Inference Patterns for Computational Modeling explores a specific set of intelligence theories, unifying and quantifying to create a verifiable model of various inferencing habits. Relational Thinking Styles suggests that the inferencing patterns described and demonstrated by this model may provide a platform from which to examine and integrate various aspects of natural intelligence and how these are expressed. This research provides valuable information for businesses, social services, and any decision-making process involving intelligence assessment.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Chapter 1

Definitions of Terms (pages 1-21)

This chapter provides information about the philosophical ideas and associated terminology that underlie Relational Thinking Styles (RTS) and briefly explains how these relate to computational modeling and to the Davis Non-Verbal...

Chapter 2

Why Understanding Thinking Styles Matters (pages 22-42)

RTS is a human systems theory, a model of innate human operational processes that interact with one another, with materials, and within contexts to affect the functioning of whole systems, regardless of their size or importance. RTS...

Chapter 3

Structure of the Relational Thinking Styles Model (pages 43-61)

This chapter lays out the initial RTS model designed by Dorothy Davis to describe her theory of thinking styles. Included here is a brief discussion of the Peircean-like phenomenological model that Davis used as the framework from...

Chapter 4

Assessing Inference Patterns (pages 62-84)

This chapter addresses the underlying form and structure of the assessment task, the purpose for each aspect of the assessment, as well as specific data and explanations regarding the DNV process. Included in this chapter are...

Chapter 5

Algorithms for Determining Thinking Styles (pages 85-105)

The algorithms used to identify thinking style patterns derive from Davis’s theoretical construct of RTS. As such, we can demonstrate that they are capturing predicable patterns of human behavior. These patterns are based upon the...

Chapter 6

Some Variables for Computationally Modeling RTS (pages 106-123)

This chapter discusses the interrelationships between the three main variables that may provide extra insights into the ways and purposes for which thinking styles might be addressed in computational modeling. Successful modeling of...

Chapter 7

Computationally Modeling Inference Patterns (pages 124-141)

The second perspective, which would be much more complex than the first, involves the shaping of algorithms that could computationally define RTS operational processes, including that of the abductive-like Relational thinking style....

Chapter 8

Implications and Applications of Relational Thinking Styles (pages 142-160)

Over the past thirty-five years, the Davis Non-Verbal Standardized Assessment has been applied within many different fields and business applications including education, social and counseling services, criminal justice, risk...

Chapter 9

Phenomenology: The Qualitative Core of Reasoning (pages 161-179)

Relational Thinking Styles is traced to Peirce’s phenomenology, his logic and concept of abduction. A process similar to Peirce’s descriptions of this phenomenological sort of proto-abduction is demonstrated and observed by means of...

Chapter 10

Peirce’s Normative Sciences (pages 180-198)

One purpose of this chapter is to establish the basis for identifying the etiology of the abductive reasoning process by first addressing the relationship between Peirce’s concept of phenomenology and aesthetics, the first of his...

Chapter 11

The Dilemma of Defining Abduction (pages 199-219)

Although Peirce states that abduction is the “only logical operation which introduces any new idea,” many, if not most, explanatory hypotheses offer nothing new at all. They do not seem to be, in the sense Peirce means, abductively...

Chapter 12

Creative Abduction (pages 220-240)

The focus of this chapter is the sort of abduction that is only achievable by means of the unique, generative process capable of producing original ideas. The authors discuss Kapitan’s (1997) theses as a framework for understanding...

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