Psychology of science : implicit and explicit processes /

This title brings together contributions from leaders in the emerging discipline of the psychology of science with other experts on the roles of implicit and explicit processes in thinking.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Purdue Symposium on Psychological Sciences Purdue University
Other Authors: Proctor, Robert W., Capaldi, E. John
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Introduction: Implicit and Explicit Processes in the Psychology of Science; Part One: Role of the Psychology of Science and Its Methods; 1. The Psychology of Science Is Off and Running but Where Do We Go from Here?; 2. Psychology of Science: Influence on the Philosophy of Science; 3. Methodological Approaches to Scientific and Technological Thinking; Part Two: Agency and Reasoning in the Psychology of Science; 4. The Role of Psychology in an Agent-Centered Theory of Science; 5. The Acting Person in Science Practice
  • 6. Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and the Causal and Scientific Reasoning of Nonscientists7. Detecting, Classifying, and Remediating: Children's Explicit and Implicit Misconceptions about Experimental Design; Part Three: Implicit and Explicit Processes in the Cognitive Psychology of Science; 8. How to Define and Examine Implicit Processes?; 9. How Should We Understand Implicit and Explicit Processes in Scientific Thinking?; 10. The Interaction of Implicit versus Explicit Processing and Problem Difficulty in a Scientific Discovery Task
  • Part Four: Psychological Perspectives: Influence on Science11. Scientists Are Human: Implicit Cognition and Researcher Conflict of Interest; 12. Bias, Feminism, and the Psychology of Investigating Gender; 13. The Theory Ladenness of the Mental Processes Used in the Scientific Enterprise: Evidence from Cognitive Psychology and the History of Science; 14. The Practice of Psychological Science in Social-Personality Research: Are We Still a Science of Two Disciplines?; Part Five: Scientific Creativity
  • 15. Scientific Creativity as Blind Variation: Explicit and Implicit Procedures, Mechanisms, and Processes16. Creative Combination of Representations: Scientific Discovery and Technological Invention; 17. On the Unreasonable Reasonableness of Mathematical Physics: A Cognitive View; 18. Digging into Implicit/Explicit States and Processes: The Case of Cognitive/Social Process Interaction in Scientific Groups; Part Six: Unconventional Perspectives on the Conduct of Science; 19. Implicit Ontological Reasoning: The Problems of Dualism in Psychological Science
  • 20. Notre Trahison des Clercs: Implicit Aspirations-Explicit ExploitationsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z