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General method has two serious weaknesses: it conflates general psychology with the psychology of a subject, and it gives adult rather than child psychology

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q1 i? General method underestimates that general psychology differs from the psychology of a given subject of instruction, and has provided adult rather than child psychology. → Clayton C. Kohl 1911

Evidence

Clayton C. Kohl 1911

Clayton C. Kohl. (1911). Needed Research in Method. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Needed+Research+in+Method%22+Kohl

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Critical argument in the survey section of the article. The author reasons that a good general psychologist may take a long time to become a good teacher, and that "general psychology is quite a different thing from the psychology of a given subject of instruction." No empirical data are reported; this is the author's reasoned critique.

"General method has ignored or underestimated the fact that general psychology is quite a different thing from the psychology of a given subject of instruction."

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title General method has two serious weaknesses: it conflates general psychology with the psychology of a subject, and it gives adult rather than child psychology
description General method has two serious weaknesses: it conflates general psychology with the psychology of a subject, and it gives adult rather than child psychology
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 1911
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