James J. Jenkins
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 108 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5138-6180-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James J. Jenkins (born 1923), American psychology professor, played a significant role in the development of cognitive psychology. Trained as an industrial psychologist, his early career was shaped by his Fellowship at the Social Science Research Council’s 1953 summer meeting that established the discipline of psycholinguistics. He initially attempted to apply a modified version of behaviorism to the problems of language behavior, and while his "mediational” approach was very influential, he became convinced that it could not provide an adequate account of the structural nature of language as articulated by Noam Chomsky. He continued research on language and cognition, eventually focusing on topics concerning speech perception (in collaboration with his wife, Winifred Strange). His research was marked by an interest in new and even radical ideas (e.g., those advocated by James J. Gibson), a keen appreciation of the value of studying...