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Basic and Applied Cognitive Research in a Country Discovering Psychology
Full text linkThe paper illustrates how the author started research in the field of applied cognitive psychology. The paper describes the obstacles and opportunities associated with living in a country where Psychology was underdeveloped
L'intelligenza.
No full textIl concetto di intelligenza, seppur in forma intuitiva, è ben presente in ognuno di noi e nella nostra esperienza: sin dai primi anni di scuola, per esempio, ci è facilmente capitato di avere l'impressione che vi fossero compagni più o meno intelligenti. Allo stesso tempo, lo studio dell'intelligenza costituisce una delle aree più affascinanti e sfuggenti detta psicologia. Cos'è l'intelligenza? Come si misura? Intelligenti si nasce o si diventa? Questo volume, frutto del lungo lavoro di ricerca di uno dei più importanti studiosi della materia, presenta un'approfondita e articolata analisi delle diverse teorie sull'intelligenza e sulla sua misurazione, delle sue basi biologiche e del ruolo di esperienza ed educazione. L'autore illustra poi come gli sviluppi recenti della psicologia cognitiva possano aiutare a sviluppare una nuova visione del costrutto, basata sui concetti di memoria di lavoro e metacognizione
Imagery and meta-imagery in the VVIQ.
No full textComments on S. J. McKelvie's (see record 1996-29151-001) review of the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ). Three aspects of the VVIQ that are related to the S's naive thinking about mental imagery are considered: the S's theory of imagery, his or her idea of vividness, and the use of the vividness rating scale
Evaluating working memory.
No full textReviews the book that examines, from different points of view, issues related to the concept of working memory. Despite its general title, the book does not examine different approaches to working memory but is substantially focused on the working memory model proposed by Baddeley and Hitch in 1974 and then developed by Baddeley and other British researchers in the last 25 years. Differently from other more theoretically oriented edited books concerning working memory, focus is on the theoretical implications of the research data. The result is that the chapters are more rich in issues, questions, critiques and problematic views than of strong and convincing conclusions. This could create confusion for the reader, but may help the researcher in getting an updated presentation not only of the area, but also of the problems associated with the model
The contribution of cognitive psychology to the study of human intelligence
No full textCognitive Psychology (CP) in the last 50 years has shown impressive
development, producing a large body of data mainly concerned with specific
elements of the complex cognitive architecture of the mind. The focus on single
processes, in large part necessarily narrow and detailed, has not prevented the
development of general concepts, paradigms, and models that can be useful to
all areas of psychology. In fact, since the mind's operations typically studied by
CP, such as memory, attention, language, reasoning, and so on, are the basis for
every psychological activity and behaviour, their scientific analysis can be used
by other associated areas of study, for example Social Psychology, Clinical
Psychology, Applied Psychology, Educational Psychology, Developmental
Psychology, etc. Indeed, we are observing in these areas an increasing interest in
concepts emerging from CP.
The potential contribution of CP to the study of human intelligence is par-
ticularly representative and interesting. In fact, the consideration of individual
differences in cognitive abilities and, in particular, in intelligence is one of the
main topics that should be covered by CP. But this has not been the case for many
years. Despite its obvious importance, the concept of intelligence has been
suspiciously considered by many researchers and in particular by researchers
working in the cognitive area. An implicit consideration has been that the concept
``intelligence'' is ill-defined and lacks an association with a well-supported
research tradition. The misleading and circular definition of ``intelligence'', as
the dimension measured by intelligence tests, was considered representative of
the theoretical poverty of the field. For this reason the study of intelligence was
mainly left to psychologists working in the psychometric tradition and to a certain
extent the field of developmental psychology. However there are now signs that
the time has come for CP to make a more substantial contribution to the study of
individual differences in intelligence and other related cognitive abilities
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