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- From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
- Subject: Re: Cog Psych vs. Cog Sci
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.180726.6005@psych.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
- References: <1993Jan22.161249.19173@ils.nwu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:07:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.161249.19173@ils.nwu.edu> pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David Pautler) writes:
- >Christopher Green says:
- >> Nevertheless, I would characterize cog psy's function with
- >> relation to cog sci as the supplying of data. Certainly it's theoretical
- >> work of late has been none to impressive, on the whole.
- >
- >I'm sure you don't want to name names, but what areas of cognitive psychology
- >do you have in mind? Cog psych seems to be doing a pretty good job in
- >memory, analogy, and judgement IMO (perception, too, from what I hear).
- >
- Well, I don't want to name names. Problem is, naming topics is just
- as incriminating. Memory theory is at least highly
- developed. Whether it's close to right is another matter. Analogy, judgement,
- reasoning, concept formation etc. are in awful shape, as far as I'm concerned.
- I have seen little in those areas that I would recognize as a theory...
- and they have been my central areas of interest, so it's not as though
- I'm not familiar with their literature. What more can I say?
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