Concepts, Categories, and Psychological Science
- 1 May 1993
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 4 (3) , 143-153
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1993.tb00478.x
Abstract
Why are psychologists not often vailed on for their expertise in connection with the larger problems of society? The nature of expertise is analyzed in the framework of a theory of concept formation and categorization. Expert-novice differences in approaches to problems, and. more generally, the nature of abstraction and judgment, are interpreted in terms of cognitive processes that operate by computations on an instance-based composite memory. Applied to “growing pains” of psychological science, the theory has implications for graduate training and the direction of research support.Keywords
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