Categorizing Cognition: Toward Conceptual Coherence in the Foundations of Psychology

by Steven Phillips, William H. Wilson, Graeme S. Halford, et al.

A proposal for a categorization of cognition based on core properties of the constituent processes that integrates theory and empirical findings across domains.

All sciences need ways to classify the phenomena they investigate; chemistry has the periodic table and biology a taxonomic system for classifying life forms. These classification schemes depend on conceptual coherence, demonstrated correspondences across paradigms. This conceptual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262028077
• ISBN13: 9780262028073
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher