I wrote:
> The "think-aloud protocol" was (and I assume still is)
> fairly "mainstream", at least in cognitive _educational_ psychology, but
the
> interpretation of the data is bounded by the evidence laid out in the
classic
> article on this issue:
>
> Nisbett, R. E., & Wilson, T. D. (1977). Telling more than we can know:
> Verbal reports on mental processes. Psychological Review, 84, 231-259.
>
> (followed up by a book, I believe by Lawrence Erlbaum,
> titled "Verbal Reports as Data", if I remember correctly).
Oops - my memory failed me big time on this stuff. The Nisbett & Wilson
article was the first classic, but the slightly more relevant article was
Ericsson, K. A., & Simon, H. A. (1980). Verbal Reports as Data.
Psychological Review, 87, 215-251.
and of course the book was Ericsson and Simon's "Protocol Analysis: Verbal
Reports as Data", published by The MIT Press. There's also on interesting
recap of the issue in Psychological Science, vol. 5, no. 5 (1994).
Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
