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Comment
. 2007 Mar;41(1):28-34; discussion 75-82.
doi: 10.1007/s12124-007-9008-9.

Psychology is about processes

Stellan Ohlsson  1
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Psychology is about processes

Stellan Ohlsson. Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2007 Mar.

Abstract

Out of the eight points of methodological criticism against contemporary psychology formulated by Watson (Psychological Bulletin 31:755-776, 1934) and put forward by Toomela in this issue, the overemphasis on prediction, the neglect of individual differences, the habit of the differences between the mental states of subjects in objective experimental conditions are particularly important. Modem cognitive psychology has began to remedy those problems, in part by proposing broad, integrative theories. It is not useful to subdivide psychology into "schools of thought" defined by their methodological practices.

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