Word: cognitist
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Herrnstein's research delves into comparative cognition. His work is "comparative" because he applies findings from his animal research to human behavior. As a cognitist, he is interested in internal thought processes. But Herrnstein does not reject behavioral psychology and investigates as well the relationship between the environment of a person or animal and its observable behavior. Herrnstein calls himself eclectic: "I am a little bit of behaviorist and cognitist, but my experiments are more inclined towards those of a behaviorist...
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