Einstein said that "the whole of science is nothing more than a                  refinement of everyday thinking." David Klahr suggests that we now know enough about                  cognition--and hence about everyday thinking--to advance our understanding of                  scientific thinking. In this book he sets out to describe the cognitive and                  developmental processes that have enabled scientists to make the discoveries that                  comprise the body of information we call "scientific knowledge."Over the past decade                  Klahr and his colleagues have conducted extensive laboratory experiments in which                  they create discovery contexts, computer-based environments, to evoke the kind of                  thinking characteristic of scientific discovery in the "real world." In attempting                  to solve the problems posed by the discovery tasks, experiment participants (from                  preschoolers through university students, as well as laypersons) use many of the                  same higher-order cognitive processes used by practicing scientists. Through this                  work Klahr integrates two disparate approaches--the content-based approach and the                  process-based approach--to present a comprehensive model of the psychology of                  scientific discovery.

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