在心理学中确立正确的概念含义：我们为什么要关注？

IF 12.3 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

American Psychologist Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI:10.1037/amp0001412

Raymond M Bergner

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本文的目的是探讨心理科学中的三个基本问题并提出答案。(a) 我们在研究和临床工作中使用的概念，尤其是涉及 "行为"、"心理障碍 "和 "人格 "等基础概念时，为什么要认真、严格地确定其正确的含义？(b) 我们怎样才能超越仅以相对微不足道的凭空直觉为基础的含义，转而以能有力证明其正确性的方式为基础的含义，从而使该领域对其含义的理解保持一致和统一？(c) 除了提供定义和原型的标准做法之外，概念表述在其他科学中采取的、在心理科学中可以采取的其他形式是什么？(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有）。

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Establishing correct concept meanings in psychology: Why should we care and how can we do it?

The purpose of this article was to address and to propose answers to three basic questions in psychological science. (a) Why should we care about carefully and rigorously establishing correct meanings for the concepts we employ in our research and clinical work, especially in those cases where foundational concepts such as "behavior," "mental disorder," and "personality" are concerned? (b) How can we move beyond meanings grounded in little more than relatively meager armchair intuition to ones grounded in ways that strongly justify their acceptance as correct and thus might result in consistency and uniformity in the field regarding their meanings? (c) Aside from the standard practices of providing definitions and prototypes, what are some other forms that concept formulation takes in other sciences and could take in psychological science, that is, other means of capturing and demarcating the domains of reference of our concepts? (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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American Psychologist PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

18.50

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1.20%

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145

期刊介绍： Established in 1946, American Psychologist® is the flagship peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the American Psychological Association. It publishes high-impact papers of broad interest, including empirical reports, meta-analyses, and scholarly reviews, covering psychological science, practice, education, and policy. Articles often address issues of national and international significance within the field of psychology and its relationship to society. Published in an accessible style, contributions in American Psychologist are designed to be understood by both psychologists and the general public.