
Uljana Feest, "Operationism in Psychology: An Epistemology of Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
New Books in Psychology
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Exploring Operational Definitions in Psychology
This chapter examines operational definitions in psychology, focusing on their role in implicit memory and semantic priming. It highlights the significance of how measurement methods relate to concepts, with discussions on priming effects and the distinctions between different memory types. The speakers also engage with the complexities of psychological terminology and the implications of folk psychological understandings in categorizing memory and other cognitive phenomena.
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