Posted: Jun 24, 2011 4:40 am
Imza wrote:I've always had a hard time completely tracking the historical roots of cognitive psychology from behavioral psychology. The book I'm reading right now on radical behaviorism (conceptual foundations of radical behaviorism by Jay Moore) actually looks at the history and associates modern cognitive psychology fully with S-O-R or neo-behaviorist theories. However, doing some google searches with those terms one immediately finds that not all cognitive psychologist would agree that neobehaviorism is the same as modern day cognitive psychology.
I don´t think Moore is saying that “it´s the same”. He´s saying that cognitive psychology derives from S-O-R behaviorism, and preserves its core epistemological assumptions.
Imza wrote:The common quarrels that I'm familiar with in at least education psychology is related to behavioral psychologist arguing that certain concepts such as executive functioning, different cognitive types of learners, etc, are not useful within the classroom or creating educational strategies. However, cognitive psychologist are very active in research areas where the focus is heavily on control and prediction so I'm not sure if the distinction that Hayes & Brownstein are making is a solid one.
Which are those research areas of cognitive psychology, where the focus is heavily on control and prediction?