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This chapter gives an overview of Bruner's psychological/cognitive theory, particularly his critique of behaviorism and his involvement in the Cognitive Revolution in the mid twentieth century and his turn to cultural psychology in more recent years.
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Takaya, K. (2013). Psychology as a Human Science. In: Jerome Bruner. SpringerBriefs in Education(). Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6781-2_2
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