Comparative Studies of How People Think: An Introduction
ISBN-13:
9780674152618
ISBN-10:
0674152611
Edition:
Revised
Author:
Michael Cole, Barbara Means
Publication date:
1986
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Format:
Paperback
224 pages
Category:
Psychology & Counseling
,
Cognitive Psychology
,
Behavioral Sciences
,
General
,
Psychology
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ISBN-13:
9780674152618
ISBN-10:
0674152611
Edition:
Revised
Author:
Michael Cole, Barbara Means
Publication date:
1986
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Format:
Paperback
224 pages
Category:
Psychology & Counseling
,
Cognitive Psychology
,
Behavioral Sciences
,
General
,
Psychology
Summary
Comparative Studies of How People Think: An Introduction (ISBN-13: 9780674152618 and ISBN-10: 0674152611), written by authors
Michael Cole, Barbara Means, was published by Harvard University Press in 1986.
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The psychology of thinking has traditionally been in the business of making comparisons between different groups of people. On the whole, these comparisons have rendered a substantial body of knowledge; but all too often, they have suffered the pitfalls of faulty organizational logic and unfounded or invidious conclusions. In this extraordinarily clear and critical introduction, Michael Cole and Barbara Means out the problems involved in comparing how people think. They show, for example, how variables confounded with the constitution of two groups can lead to the wrong interpretation of group differences. More subtly, they demonstrate how cognitive differences between groups can destroy the equivalence of the tests used to make comparisons. They also discuss the unfortunate way that observed differences between groups have led to prejudicial interpretations in which mental differences are transformed into mental deficits.Cole and Means illustrate all these problems with a rich variety of examples drawn from the research literature in comparative cognition. Because they use real examples. Cole and Means offer much more than the usual banal remedies for improving research design. Instead of merely telling the student to run the right control groups, for example, they show how theory enters into the selection of appropriate controls and how atheoretic comparative work can easily run amok.It is a rare event when seasoned researchers take time to tell the novice how to avoid the problems of previous research. Comparative Studies of How People Think provides just such an event.
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