Posted by Dinah on March 28, 2005, at 0:19:21
In reply to Re: (ii) The Socio-Cognitive Model » Dinah, posted by alexandra_k on March 27, 2005, at 23:57:21
Because most of psychology (outpatient at least) is self report. And not all behavior is visible.
And to miss the rather obvious conclusion that people can lie and misrepresent in both directions seems relatively lacking in logic.
And mathematics (especially algebra, though I suppose geometry too) is the best teacher of logic I know.
I have a favorite cartoon. (Foxtrot - Bill Amend - copyright 1993). It's of a brainy little boy talking to his sister. She's complaining about word problems in math and he says "Are you kidding? Word problems are great! Without word problems math would be just some abstract bunch of formulas that live only within the confines of a classroom or a textbook. But in reality, math is everywhere you look! It permeates everything! You can't escape it! And that's what word problems let us in on. And the more math you learn, the more math you see..."
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