By Mary Midgley
During this e-book certainly one of Britain's top philosophers tackles a query on the root of our civilisation: what's wisdom for? Midgley rejects the fragmentary and really expert manner during which info is conveyed within the high-tech global, and criticizes conceptions of philosophy that help this mode of pondering.
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Cognitionandinstruction:Theirhistoricmeeting within educational psychology. Jourl~ulof ~ducutionulPsychology, 84,405-41 2. Perspective of Cognitive Psychology 21 Miller, C. A. (1956). The magic number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. ~syc/zological Rev~ew, 63, 8 1-93. (1975). A framework for representing knowledge. In P. H. ), The psyc~zolog~~ of c o ~ p u t e rvision. New York: McCraw-Hill. Neisser, U. ( l 967). Cog~zitivepsychology. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
A review of the areas of cognitive psychology. It is not a book of applications but an overview of the important areas of cognitive research. Although it is intended to serveasasourcebookfor under~raduates,it also provides enough substance to satisfy those who wish to delve more deeply into the area of cognitive psychology. Glover, J. , Ronning, R. ,& Bruning, R. H,(1990). Cognitive ~sychologyforteachers. New York: ~ a ~ m i l ~An a noverview . of cognitive psychology and its implipsycho~ogy, focusing on cations for instruction.
N ~Harter, ic 1981; Dweck & Leggett, 1988). However, more recent research suggests that individuals could have both intrinsic and extrinsic rationales for enga~ingin a task at the same time (Pintrich & Garcia, 1991). For example, a college student could choose to study for a course for intrinsic reasons (concerning learning and mastery) as well as extrinsic reasons (such as getting good grades and facilitating career prospects). Pintrich and Garcia (1991) have examined this model in a study of college students and found support for the idea that intrinsic and extrinsic goal orientations are two separate dimensions with students showing differing levels on both dimensions.