Psychology deals with the most complex subject matter of any science. As such, it is subject
to misunderstandings, artifacts, and just simple errors of data, logic, and interpretation. This …

The remarkable successes of the physical sciences have been built on highly general
quantitative laws, which serve as the basis for understanding an enormous variety of specific …

Abstract Ennis's (1988) numerical analysis supports a reconciliation of the seemingly
different conclusions reached by Shepard and by Nosofsky concerning generalization and …

Speaking as someone who has personally felt the influence of the “Chomskian Turn”, I
believe that one of Chomsky's most significant contributions to Psychology, or as it is now …

As an aspiring science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, psychology pursued
quantification. A problem was that degrees of psychological attributes (most importantly …

Neuroscientists have an advantage on us dry Cognitive Scientists: They always have
impressive color slides of PET or MRI or fMRI images showing the exact location of whatever …

This article attempts to characterize scientific realism as a viable alternative metatheory for
psychological science that is superior to traditional empiricism. It is suggested that scientific …

The aim of this book is not to impart a substantive knowledge of core psychological theories,
or even to analyze critically selected theories. Instead, it is to prepare the reader to analyze …

This volume presents a series of studies that expand laws, invariants, and principles of
psychophysics beyond its classical domain of sensation. This book's goal is to demonstrate …