Perhaps Shultz & Schultz is making a vague reference to the work of Newell &
Simon in Human Problem Solving that used the verbal protocols of college
students solving puzzles. Some of the classic studies in imagery also used
instructional variables that asked subjects to perform "mental" tasks. These
could be construed as instrospection. I think that cognitive theory development
may very well use some introspectively-based examples to help our understanding
of some phenomena (such as wayfinding in environmental psychology), but it is
usually supplemented with "harder" data, such as reaction time or number of
errors. Unfortunately, the data weren't hard enough for Skinner.
Bill
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William Wozniak, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Kearney, NE 68849
Ph: 308-865-8235
Fax: 308-865-8980
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