From Principles of
Behavior to Evolutionary Principles
Since Wilhelm Wundt began with
his psychological studies in 1879, psychology struggled for a
viable conceptual basis as a modern science. The then
adopted solution looked like a bad
imitation of physics for a long time. Fascinated by the accuracy and the
success of physics as role model for all natural sciences,
psychologists borrowed their mathematical and experimental
approach without becoming aware of the shortcomings of a
pure mathematical psychology: human experience and behavior
often "don't compute". While trying to make progress they
often regressed into a "Cargo
Cult Science" (Feynman). Only recently psychology is beginning to
realize this mistake and is shifting to a new paradigm,
asking the right questions: How did we, the human animals,
become what we are and for what ultimate causations?
Legal psychological essay on the relation of criminality and
society
Essay on cognitive structure as a framework in clinical
psychology
Work on constructivist approaches to solve education
problems |