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Culture And The Revolution Of Research Mode In Psychology

Posted on:2007-11-05Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H TianFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360185457933Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Psychological research is carried out on the basis of some theoretical suppositions. The fundamental theoretical supposition in psychology is the subject-object relationship and this constitutes the separation points of different forms of psychology. The subject-object dualism in mainstream psychology results in a series of conflicts between investigators and subjects, matter and method. This finally results in the lose of subjectivity of psychology. It mainly exhibits the objectivation of investigatees, the rationalization of investigators and the centralization of methods. The image of human beings in psychology is covered up and cleaned up by the image of science.In the study of natural science, investigators are the absolute subjects and natural things are the absolute objects. The aim of natural science is to reflect the original profile of the nature faithfully. The largest difference between psychology and natural science is as follows: psychology is the study on person himself and is the discovery of interior. Both the investigators and investigatees are human beings with subjectivity. Obviously, there is qualitative difference between psychology and natural science.Before the independence of psychology, the discovery of human nature and psychosis exists in philosophical thought. Natural-scientific and cultural–historical approaches are formed on the basis of how to study human beings and their psychosis. During the time of scientific psychology naissance, W. Wundt recognized the unique properties of psychological investigatees. Experimental...
Keywords/Search Tags:Revolution
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