Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Psychological Science

被引：1
作者：
Nelson K. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emerita, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY
来源：
Biological Theory | 2015年 / 10卷 / 3期
关键词：
Experimental psychology; Intelligence; Learning; Memory; Qualitative research;
D O I：
10.1007/s13752-015-0216-0
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摘要：
The field of psychology has emphasized quantitative laboratory research as a defining character of its role as a science, and has generally de-emphasized qualitative research and theorizing throughout its history. This article reviews some of the effects of this emphasis in two areas, intelligence testing, and learning and memory. On one side, quantitative measurement produced the widely used IQ test but shed little light on the construct of intelligence and its role in human cognition. On the other side, reductive quantification and experimental constraints limited the investigation and understanding of human memory systems and complex learning throughout the first century of the field’s history. Recent research under fewer constraints has made greater progress in these areas. © 2015, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.
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