Bøker av Norman H. Anderson

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The theory of information integration provides a unified approach to the three disciplines of cognitive, social and developmental psychology. This volume illustrates how the concepts and methods of this theory may be productively applied to core problems in developmental psychology.

This text presents a unified, general theory of functional cognition stemming from the foundation axiom of purposiveness. This axiom is made effective through capability for functional measurment of values based on the general cognitive algebra established in information integration theory.

This study's goal is to help students develop skills of scientific inferences. The author has developed "the experimental pyramid" which summarizes the philosophy of the book. Containing six levels, the pyramid portrays a hierarchy of considerations involved in empirical investigation.