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. 1973 Mar;19(2):369–378. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1973.19-369

Inside the Black Box, with apologies to Pandora. A review of Ulric Neisser's Cognitive Psychology1

Reviewed by: Kurt Salzinger
PMCID: PMC1334088

Abstract

It behooves us, as good citizens of the science of psychology, to shirk no area of psychology as long as we can apply scientific method to it. The research in cognitive psychology is certainly interesting, on the whole well executed, and very challenging. It is well within the scope of a behavioristic approach. It merely awaits more attention from behaviorists.

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