Psychology defined.
A new form of knowledge technology is used to diagnose psychology's epistemological woes and provide a solution to the difficulties. The argument presented is that psychology has traditionally spanned two separate but intimately related problems: (a) the problem of animal behavior and (b) the problem of human behavior. Accordingly, the solution offered divides the field into two broad, logically consistent domains. The first domain is psychological formalism, which is defined as the science of mind, corresponds to animal behavior, and consists of the basic psychological sciences. The second domain is human psychology, which is defined as the science of human behavior at the individual level and is proposed as a hybrid that exists between psychological formalism and the social sciences.
Henriques
Gregg R
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Department of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA. henriqgx@jmu.edu
D000818:Animals; D001519:Behavior; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D001527:Behaviorism; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D019222:Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical; D010684:Philosophy; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000145:classification / Q000639:trends*; D012942:Social Sciences / Q000639:trends; D013038:Specialization / Q000639:trends