Since its establishment, psychology has struggled to find valid methods for studying
thoughts and subjective experiences. Thirty years ago, Ericsson and Simon (1980) …

A distinction is drawn between non-conscious (unexperienced), conscious (experienced),
and meta-conscious (re-represented) mental processes. There is evidence for two types of …

Research on moral judgment has been dominated by rationalist models, in which moral
judgment is thought to be caused by moral reasoning. The author gives 4 reasons for …

Despite the accumulation of substantial cognitive science research relevant to education,
there remains confusion and controversy in the application of research to educational …

When an attitude changes from A 1 to A 2, what happens to A 1? Most theories assume, at
least implicitly, that the new attitude replaces the former one. The authors argue that a new …

Four theories of the human conceptual system—semantic memory, exemplar models, feed‐
forward connectionist nets, and situated simulation theory—are characterised and …

Interference provides an account of one of the most basic problems in the science of
memory: forgetting. Historically, theories of this process were shaped by models of …

The gestures children spontaneously produce when explaining a task predict whether they
will subsequently learn that task. Why? Gesture might simply reflect a child's readiness to …

Six studies investigate whether and how distant future time perspective facilitates abstract
thinking and impedes concrete thinking by altering the level at which mental representations …

INTRODUCTION If a scientific construct's centrality reflects the variety of forms it takes, then
abstraction is a central construct in cognitive science, taking at least the following six senses …