The General Characteristics And Evolutionary Logic Of American Psychological Thought

This paper describes the general characteristics of American psychological thought and summarizes the evolutionary logic of American psychological thought?The general characteristics of American psychological thought are mainly reflected in the following five aspects: Pragmatism has created the fundamental spirit of American psychological thought;Function constitutes the eternal theme of American psychology research;Attention to application has become an important feature of American psychology.Attaching importance to action is the dominant characteristic of American psychological methodology.The utility standard becomes the basic basis for the identification of American psychological theory.And the evolutionary logic of American psychological thought includes the following four aspects.On research topics,American psychology takes the function research as the eternal development topic,the adaptive function of consciousness,the adaptive function of behavior,the cognitive function,the dynamic function and the evolutionary mechanism of function constitute the realistic development of the research on psychological function in America,it reveals the polymorphic multifunction of human function from multi-dimension and multi-level.In the view of discipline nature,American psychology has established the development road of basic science view and applied science view,naturalscience view and humanistic science view,one-way science view and comprehensive science view.All these views provide useful guidance for the development of American psychology.In methodology,the emphasis on action is the leading characteristic of American psychological methodology,it starts with conviction,takes action as the main means,and takes utility as the highest goal,thus,which has formed a pluralistic philosophical psychology methodology,two scientism psychology methodology and multiple functional psychology methodology,which have brought abundant research results for the development of psychology and demonstrated the vitality of psychology.In terms of theoretical construction,the utility standard is the basic basis for the identification of American psychological theory,it is utility-oriented and focuses on the eclectic and inclusive development of psychology,which has formed a variety of theoretical types and brought forth rich and colorful theoretical research results.Finally,the general characteristics and logic of American psychology in its development show its contribution and limitation to psychology to some extent.The future of Chinese psychology will be based on the dialectical materialist development concept of Marx,grasp the dual attributes of psychology,establish the integrated vision of psychology,and devote to the realization of the complete unification of scientism and humanism.