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Title:

The General Psychological Crisis and its Comparative Psychological Resolution

Journal Issue:

International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2(3)

Author:

Tolman, Charles W., University of Victoria

Publication Date:

1989

Publication Info:

International Journal of Comparative Psychology, UCLA Department of Psychology, UC LosAngeles

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Abstract:

The crisis in general psychology is identified as one of theoretical indeterminacy. An importantsource of indeterminacy is the form of generalization that emphasizes classification and commoncharacters and identifies the general with the abstract. Determinate theory requires a formof generalization that identifies the general with the concrete and emphasizes genesis andinterconnection. In order to overcome its crisis, general psychology thus requires the kind ofevolutionary methodology that comparative psychology is, historically speaking, best prepared toprovide.

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