Evaluating Experimental Research: Critical Issues  

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Roediger, Henry L. ; McCabe, David P.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Critical Thinking in Psychology, page 15-36.
Topik: Experimental Research; Generalizability of Research
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The author of this quote is Edwin G. Boring (1886–1968), one of the great psychologists of the 20th century and author of A History of Experimental Psychology (1929; the quote comes from p. 659). Contemporary psychologists take “the psychology experiment” as a given, but it is actually a relatively recent cultural invention. Although fascination with human behavior is doubtless as old as the emergence of Homo sapiens, the application of experimental methods to the study of the human mind and behavior is only 150 or so years old. Scienti?c methods, with heavy reliance on experimental technique, arose in Western civilization during the time of the Renaissance, when great insights and modes of thoughts from the ancient Greek, Roman, and Arab civilizations were rediscovered. The 17th century witnessed the great discoveries of Kepler, Galileo, and Newton in the physical world. Interest in chemistry and biology arose after the early development of physics. Experimental physiology arose as a discipline in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Still, despite great advances in these ?elds and despite the fact that scientists of the day usually conducted research in many different ?elds, no one at that time performed experiments studying humans or their mental life. The ?rst physiologists and anatomists mostly contented themselves with the study of corpses. The idea of conducting experiments on mental phenomena in people would doubtless have seemed exotic, if not deemed utterly impossible.

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