Open AccessBEYOND STRUCTURE: IN SEARCH OF FUNCTIONAL MODELS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS 1
Author(s) -
Messick Samuel
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
ets research bulletin series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2333-8504
pISSN - 0424-6144
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1972.tb00823.x
Subject(s) - intellect , multitude , creativity , personality , psychology , cognition , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , process (computing) , epistemology , social psychology , computer science , philosophy , neuroscience , operating system
This paper emphasizes the need to go beyond structural models of personality and intellect to develop sequential models of psychological process, particularly for such complex phenomena of prime concern to theory and application as learning, problem solving, and creativity. It is further argued that factor analysis, in a multitude of studies of cognition and personality over the past fifty years, has already delineated many relevant process variables that might serve as components in these sequential models.