Mechanisms in Cognitive Psychology: What Are the Operations?
Cognitive psychologists, like biologists, frequently describe mechanisms when explaining phenomena. Unlike biologists, who can often trace material transformations to identify operations, psychologists face a more daunting task in identifying operations that transform information. Behavior provides...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 75; no. 5; pp. 983 - 995 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2008
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