Nuevas perspectivas del procesamiento de la información
ISSN: 0210-9395, 1579-3699
Année de publication: 1985
Número: 22
Pages: 3-18
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Estudios de Psicología = Studies in Psychology
Résumé
Despite Cognitive Psychology being one of the most powerful and fruitful new areas of work in present Psychology, it is necessary to formulate some critics to this approach. This is the main goal of this article. These critics are focused on the �formal analogies�. Whenever a group of phenomena is difficult and blurred to our understanding it is permissible to stablish analogies between this group and another one that is better known to us. What we call �formal analogies� may facilitate the theoretical structuration of psychological data but, on the other hand, may have important weak points. This article analises the main analogies of Cognitive Psychology and shows its main deficiencies