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Constitution and change of cognitive processes: some methodological issues
Author(s) -
JENSEN JORGEN AAGE,
BREDO OLE
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1978.tb00332.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , interpretation (philosophy) , set (abstract data type) , constitution , intervention (counseling) , process (computing) , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , social psychology , computer science , law , management , neuroscience , psychiatry , political science , economics , programming language , operating system , philosophy
The article discusses some fundamental epistemological assumptions and methodological requirements for the study of cognitive processes. Regarding systematic intervention as a necessary part of the obervational procedure, a problem solving situation about elementary logical operations is analyzed as a communication system comprising the subjects, the task, and the experimenter. It is argued that four planes of description are necessary and sufficient for (1) constituting a set of events as a process and (2) providing the basis for the use of experimenter intervention as a means for interpretation of cognitive processes.