The Study On Husserl's Criticize About Experimental Psychology And Its Influence

Since psychology departed from philosophy, it becomes an individual scientific subject stage by stage under the influence of the success of science. It chose science as its example just because of the advancement of mathematics and physics at that time. Philosophy and natural science both act important role in the development of psychology. Natural science seems the outside world as its research object. It considers that all the beings in the infinite time and space can be involved in the mathematics, in a word, the natural science mathematizing the world. The methodology of natural science achieves success in the exploration of nature. Experimental psychology takes the natural science as its example so that it can become a typical scientific subject. But different from physical phenomenon, mental phenomenon has its specific characteristic. Using the scientific method to explore the mental phenomenon is inappropriate. Husserl criticized the experimental psychology, he reckon that the spirit and the methodology of natural science made an essential mistake. It takes the natural world as an object or a research mission. It accepts all the conception without deliberation. Husserl thinks that we should clarify the conception we used and clearly understand the nature of the conception before we start the research. Phenomenology gave a new choice to the study of psychology. It is an explanation model focusing on people, and it actually exerts positive effects on psychology.When the psychologist using the phenomenology to improve their research, they change or coordinate the theory according their own needs of research. Act psychology absorbed nutrient from the phenomenology theory, so as Humanistic psychology and Gestalt psychology. Since human being has a very complicated personality, in order to make deeper study, we should take more theory related to human beings into the study of mental phenomenon. This will make psychology more humanity.Phenomenology and positivism are both act important roles in the development of psychology, the researchers usually focus on the comparison of these two methodologies from the psychological direction.《Philosophy as Strict Science)) is a book about the criticize of naturalism and historicism in the philosophy written by Husserl. This essay will make a discussion about Husserl's criticize about experimental methodology in psychology. It includes three parts:literature review; the philosophical foundation and psychological foundation of Husserl's criticize; the influence of phenomenological methodology.