I’ve noticed on your last posts that most of the studies cited are decades old; is that because this is considered a settled question in behavioral science, because a lot of these experiments wouldn’t pass modern ethics standards, or something else?
typo:
when the subject was holding on two one cord ey couldn’t reach the other.
It’s because I am lazy enough that I took all of these from a single excellent review article on the subject written in the late 1970s. As far as I know, the research since then has confirmed the same points.
Fixed the typo, and thank you, but I find the mental processes generating it interesting. I used “two” instead of “to” right before the number “one”—my guess is that my being about to write “one” semantically primed my concept of “number”, making me write “to” as “two”. If I could think of a way to search, I’d love to see how many of the same two/to error on the Internet occur right around mention of a number.
Strikes me as a behaviorist → cognitivist paradigm shift. Scientists just got tired of the old way (or more specifically, it simply stopped being new). That’d be my armchair guess.
edit :Someone better qualified should answer that. I’m not even sure that’s behaviorism.
I’ve noticed on your last posts that most of the studies cited are decades old; is that because this is considered a settled question in behavioral science, because a lot of these experiments wouldn’t pass modern ethics standards, or something else?
typo:
It’s because I am lazy enough that I took all of these from a single excellent review article on the subject written in the late 1970s. As far as I know, the research since then has confirmed the same points.
Fixed the typo, and thank you, but I find the mental processes generating it interesting. I used “two” instead of “to” right before the number “one”—my guess is that my being about to write “one” semantically primed my concept of “number”, making me write “to” as “two”. If I could think of a way to search, I’d love to see how many of the same two/to error on the Internet occur right around mention of a number.
Strikes me as a behaviorist → cognitivist paradigm shift. Scientists just got tired of the old way (or more specifically, it simply stopped being new). That’d be my armchair guess.
edit :Someone better qualified should answer that. I’m not even sure that’s behaviorism.