Functional research and cognitive-process research in behavioural science: An unequal but firmly connected pair.

Autor/in	Fiedler, Klaus
Titel	Functional research and cognitive-process research in behavioural science: An unequal but firmly connected pair.
Quelle	In: International journal of psychology, 51 (2016) 1, S. 64-71Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-7594; 1464-066X
DOI	10.1002/ijop.12163
Schlagwörter	Methodologie; Soziale Kognition; Verhaltenspsychologie
Abstract	Discusses the relation between functional and cognitive approaches to behavioral science. Drawing on illustrative examples of the functional and cognitive psychology in contemporary research, the present article emphasizes the primacy of functional relationships, which provide the foundations for all attempts to uncover invisible cognitive processes. Cognitive research is assumed to be inherently more difficult and much more ambitious than functional research. It is also regarded as suffering from several home-made problems, such as unwarranted inferences from model fitting, the mediation analysis cult and the failure to take environmental influences into account. Despite the primacy of functional psychology and the problems associated with the ambitious goals of cognitive research, it is concluded that the two partners in this unequal pair are firmly connected and jointly responsible for the most impressive examples of progress in behavioral science. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2016/4