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Psychology: a general definition
Josep Roca Balasch
INEFC- Universitat de
Barcelona, Spain
Kantor's Interbehavioral Psychology had the goal of defining
psychology as a natural science, justifying both its singularity
and its dependence in respect to other kinds of sciences. The
poster presented here is a proposal of two sets of general and
basic ideas with the same goal and which are presented through
two tables and legends. The first table places psychology in
the context of general science, pointing out the differences
between differential, functional and applications of psychology.
This is done in the context of the general classification of
sciences that differentiates between morphological, functional
and technological sciences. The second is a general definition
of psychological events rooted in the theoretical field model,
developing behavior in qualitative, quantitative and evolving
aspects and also proposing a set of causal relations to be considered
in the psychological explanation. This table and its legend offers
a general idea of how to organize, eventually, psychological
contents
Keywords: psychology, behavior,
theoretical field model |