The General Psychological Crisis and its Comparative Psychological Resolution

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" The General Psychological Crisis and its Comparative Psychological Resolution "
Tolman, Charles W.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	935261
Doc. No	:	LA2g60z086
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Tolman, Charles W.
Title & Author	:	The General Psychological Crisis and its Comparative Psychological Resolution [Article]\ Tolman, Charles W.
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Comparative Psychology
Volume/ Issue Number	:	2/3
Date	:	1989
Abstract	:	The crisis in general psychology is identified as one of theoretical indeterminacy. An important source of indeterminacy is the form of generalization that emphasizes classification and common characters and identifies the general with the abstract. Determinate theory requires a form of generalization that identifies the general with the concrete and emphasizes genesis and interconnection. In order to overcome its crisis, general psychology thus requires the kind of evolutionary methodology that comparative psychology is, historically speaking, best prepared to provide.