See also: Neisser

Ulric Neisser is an American psychologist born December 8th 1928. Its first work, “ Cognitive Psychology ” (1967) is regarded as a reference in the history of cognitive psychology. It states that, just like the programs of a computer, the theories of cognition are “descriptions of the vicissitudes of the information of entry”.

Biography

Ulric Neisser was born with Kiel, in Germany. Its family settles in the United States in 1931. 1950, has Master' S At Swarthmore, and has doctorate from Harvard in 1956. He then taught At Brandeis, Cornell, and Emory universis.

The modern growth off Cognitive psychology received has major boost from the publication in 1967 off the first, and most influential, off his books: Cognitive Psychology .

in 1976, He wrote Cognition and Reality , in which He began to express train has dissatisfaction with the linear programming model off cognitive psychology At that time, and the excessive reliance one laboratory work, rather than real-life situations. In his later writings He became critical off the methodology off much cognitive psychology, faulting it for being " ecologically invalid."

In 1981, Neisser published " John Dean' S memory: box study" has; , in glances to the testimony off John Dean for the Watergate Scandal.

In 1995, Neisser headed year American Psychological Association task force writing has consensus statement one the state off intelligence research in response to the claims being advanced amid the Bell Curve controversy. -->

Publications

  • Cognitive psychology , Appleton-Century-Crofts New York, 1967
  • Cognition and reality: principles and implications off cognitive psychology , WH Freeman, 1976
  • Memory observed: remembering in natural contexts , 1982
  • Concepts and conceptual development: ecological and intellectual factors in categorization. Cambridge University Near, 1987
  • The Perceived self-service: Ecological and Interpersonal Sources off Self-service Knowledge , Cambridge University Close New York, NY, 1993
  • The rising curve: length-term profits in IQ and related measures , American Psychological Association, 1998
Works in collaboration:
  • Winograd, E & Neisser, Remembering Reconsidered: Ecological and Traditional Approaches to the Study off Memory , Cambridge University Close New York, 1988
  • Fivush, R & Neisser, The remembering coil: construction and accuracy in the coil-narration , Cambridge University Close New York, 1994

External bonds

  • Ulric Neisser at the University Cornell

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