Some one hundred years ago the founding fathers optimistically launched psychology as a science. The premise was that the new science must break away from its parental ties to philosophy and confine itself to gathering data, preferably in the psychology laboratory. There is little doubt that this early commitment to an "observation and accumulation of data only" policy was helpful in the launching of the new science. Some idea of how critical this move to empiricism was can be gathered from the following quotation taken from Wolman (1973, p. 32): It was not an easy task to transform the old "mental philosophy" into a natural science. Natural science used observation and experimentation; they observed their subject matter, as it were, from without. Wundt's psychology was supposed to study observable stimuli and responses, but there was so much that was unobservable in psychology. Although the launching was eventually a success, there is little doubt that the high hopes of the founding fathers have not materialized.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1.- Cognition: Its Origin and Future in Psychology.- 2.- Schema and Inference: Models in Cognitive Social Psychology.- Progress and Problems in Cognitive Social Psychology.- Schemata and Inferences across Time and Space: On the Thematic Continuities of Cognitive Psychology.- The Cognitive Movement: A Turn in the Möbius Strip?.- Perspectives on Cognitivism: Reply to Commentators.- 3.- Freud s Secret Cognitive Theories.- Sigmund Freud as a Logical Phenomenologist.- Freud s Not-So-Secret Theories: A Potential Stimulant to Contemporary Cognitive Theorizing.- Freud s Secret Cognitive Theories: Reply to Commentators.- 4.- Limitations of the Dispositional Analysis of Behavior.- Merits and Limits of Dispositional Analysis.- Dispositions Do Explain: Picking up the Pieces after Hurricane Walter.- Limitations of the Dispositional Analysis of Behavior: Reply to Commentators.- 5.- The Place of Individual Differences in a Scientific Psychology.- Problems with Parameters.- The Scientific Status of Individual Differences.- Surface and Deep Structures in Individual Differences.- The Place of Individual Differences in a Scientific Psychology: Reply to Commentators.- Author Index.
