scholarly journals Beyond a Dream: The Practical Foundations of Disconnected Psychology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Krpan
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Psychological Method ◽  
Academic System ◽  
Psychological Knowledge

Disconnected psychology is a form of psychological science in which researchers ground their work upon the main principles of psychological method but are detached from a “field” consisting of other psychologists that comprises connected psychology. It has previously been proposed that combining the two forms of psychology would result in the most significant advancement of psychological knowledge (Krpan, 2020). However, disconnected psychology may seem to be a “utopian” idea rather than a realistic endeavor. The present article therefore sets the practical foundations of disconnected psychology. In this regard, I first describe a hypothetical disconnected psychologist and discuss relevant methodological and epistemological implications. I then propose how this variant of psychology could be integrated with the current academic system (i.e., with connected psychology). Overall, the present article transforms disconnected psychology from a dream into substance that could eventually maximize psychological knowledge.

scholarly journals Theoretical and methodological foundations of profiling as an interdisciplinary field of psychological knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 02006
Author(s):  
Bella Psareva ◽  
Alexandra Gamayunova
Keyword(s):  
General Knowledge ◽  
Specific Subject ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
Purposeful Activity

The article discusses one of the new applied areas in psychology, which is the non-instrumental diagnosis of lie, i.e.profiling. Currently, one of the new applied areas in psychology is profiling. Modern profiling includes knowledge, abilities, and skills (hereinafter, KAS), developed on the basis of the achievements of contemporary Psychological Science, a clear affiliation to a specific subject. The basis of integrative psychotechnology is a complex of knowledge in Psychological Sciences, where the object of general knowledge is the personality, his/her features, behavior, and general psychological laws of organizing purposeful activity. The authors come to the conclusion that profiling is an area of theoretical, methodological, integrated, scientifically grounded knowledge in related disciplines of Psychological Science.

scholarly journals THE METHOD PROBLEM IN THE CONTEXT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 116 (5) ◽  
pp. 100-109
Author(s):  
Vladislav A. Medintsev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Universal Method ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Method Integration ◽  
Integration Problem ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

In psychological science, the «method problem» remains one of the most fundamental and relevant, and a new content shade of this problem is associated with the activation of discussion on the psychological knowledge integration. In this context, the problem acquires an updated content as a problem of a universal method in psychology. There is a reason to believe that the «method problem» is transformed into the «universal method problem» and then into the «universal method integration problem». The efforts to solve these problems are often depreciated due to the ignorance of experimenting and practicing psychologists by methodological knowledge. The possible way to build a universal method for theoretical research in psychology is to use for this purpose a procedural interpretation of theorizing based on set-theoretic process description method. In the article components of theoretical research are considered as the purpose, object, subject, hypothesis of the research, as well as the considered empiricism, theoretical foundations, method of theorizing and research tasks. Two methodological «poles» of theoretical research are identified – the «normative» method and modern research methods, and a variant of analyzing their structures is proposed. To create a universal method suitable for psychological knowledge integration is associated with obstacles, which can be overcome by their systematic analysis. The article outlines a variant of this analysis, in which the causes and sources of these obstacles are differentiated based on the system of concepts used for describing processes. The sources of integration obstacles include components of prototype modi, and the causes are properties of modi functions in the recording of processes as maps of sets. The examples describe the integration obstacles at the two levels of interactions.

scholarly journals PARENTS’ OPINION ABOUT THE CHALLENGES FACED BY ADOLESCENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 211-222
Author(s):  
Akshatha Karanth ◽  
Mohan A. K.
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Adjustment Problem ◽  
Home Death ◽  
Developmental Issues ◽  
Academic System ◽  
Single Child ◽  
Questionnaire Method

The present article intends to describe the mothers’ knowledge on the challenges faced by adolescents. Most of the parents do not recognize the issues of their children. Children express stress in their behaviours. Adolescents face various issues at family, school, and society, such as poverty, adjustment problem, broken family, frequent fights at home, death of the parents, single child, no place to play, homework issues, difficulty in understanding the lesson, and other developmental issues. If suitable help is not provided in time, it affects their future as an adult. The formal academic system may not permit a teacher to handle children with psycho- social issues. The teachers’ role is limited to classroom teaching. This article makes an effort to assess the knowledge of mothers about the challenges faced by adolescents. The researcher has collected data from the mothers of children, who are studying in the high schools of the selected schools of Bengaluru using the questionnaire method.

scholarly journals Burning the straw man: What exactly is psychological science?

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J.F. Maree
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
Scientist Practitioner Model ◽  
Critical Movement ◽  
Realist Conception

Problemification: Efendic and Van Zyl (2019) argue for following open access-based principles in IO psychology following the recent crises in psychological research. Among others, these refer to the failure to replicate empirical studies which cast doubt on the trustworthiness of what we believe to be psychological knowledge. However, saving knowledge is not the issue at stake: focusing on transparency and compliance to standards might solve some problems but not all.Implications: The crisis focuses our attention on what science is and particularly science in psychology and its related disciplines. Both the scientist–practitioner model of training psychologists and the quantitative–qualitative methods polarity reveal the influence of the received or positivistic view of science as characterised by quantification and measurement. Postmodern resistance to positivism feeds these polarities and conceals the true nature of psychological science.Purpose: This article argues for a realist conception of science that sustains a variety of methods, from interpretative and constructionist approaches to measurement. However, in this view, measurement is not a defining characteristic of science, but a way to find things out and the latter supports a critical process.Recommendations: Revising our understanding of science, thus moving beyond the received view to a realist one, is crucial to manage misconceptions about what counts as knowledge and as appropriate measures when our discipline is in the crossfire. Thus, Efendic and Van Zyl’s (2019) proposals make sense and can be taken on board where measurement as one of the ways to find things out is appropriate. However, realism supports a broader enterprise that can be called scientific because it involves a critical movement of claim and counter-claim while executing its taxonomical and explanatory tasks. Thus, the psychosocial researcher, when analysing discourse, for example, can also be regarded as a scientist.

The Ill-Fated Quest for Fame in Psychological Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1141-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra M. Freund
Keyword(s):  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Excellent Research ◽  
Psychological Knowledge

The question “Am I famous yet?” directs our attention to the outcome of the journey of being a psychological scientist. There is nothing inherently wrong with wanting to achieve the highest possible outcomes when pursuing a goal. However, for a researcher, fame is an outcome that is very vague, abstract, distal, and unlikely to be attained. Focusing on this outcome might undermine motivation and persistence in the difficult endeavor of doing excellent research and contributing to psychological knowledge. To become an excellent psychological scientist might be a better outcome to which to aspire. However, focusing on the outcome seems generally less adaptive than focusing on the process of goal pursuit. A focus on the process of research is more likely to lead to higher motivation and persistence, and it might increase performance. In sum, the question “Am I famous yet?” might be ill conceived and might be better replaced by the question “How do I make a contribution to psychological science?”

scholarly journals Network pluralism in psychology: the perspective of polymethodology and transdisciplinarity

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (80) ◽  
pp. 52-69
Author(s):  
Marina Guseltseva
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Research Orientations ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Reality

The current transformations present in psychological science, on the one hand, affect its methodological and disciplinary status, on the other, they change the relationship with the current socio-cultural reality and everyday human life practices. The problem of integration of psychological knowledge arises again and is rethought at this new stage of psychology development. Opposing research orientations, such as methodological monism and methodological pluralism, methodological rigorism and methodological liberalism, offer different strategies for epistemic integration. However, from the standpoint of network pluralism, these orientations are seen as part of a unified process of cognition, where the dialectical relationships between them contribute to the achievement of integral knowledge. Flexible, networked, searchibly labile methodological strategies are coming to the aid of psychological science that seeks to integration of researches in an ontologically and epistemologically complicated world. In epistemological terms, there are polymethodologies and metatheoretical constructs that allow us to use many theories and approaches to solve a particular problem. The antinomy of incompleteness and the integrity of cognition is most effectively solved today by the network methodology. Network pluralism is a research position that supports a variety of psychological approaches, conceptual representations and theories, comprehended in the perspective of hermeneutical optics, the principle of coherence and with the ability of integration of polar attitudes in the ideal of holistic knowledge. The integration of psychological research takes place at different levels of the methodology of science: the philosophical and general scientific refers to a transdisciplinary approach that overcomes the disciplinary model of knowledge organization, replacing its problem-oriented version of the network; at the specific scientific level, the use of polymethodology leads to search methodological strategies, which are based on the approaches and methodologies available in the scientist’s arsenal; in the conceptual plan the metatheoretical constructs which are nowadays both a field of his free choice and personal responsibility are being processed here. The ability in cognitive activity to self-reflection, critical thinking and communicative rationality are important features-qualities of the modern researcher, which complete his professionalism and socio-cultural competence.

scholarly journals The integrated nature of the method of psychological portraying in law enforcement

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.M. Shpagina
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Psychological Profile ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Science Information

The article reveals peculiarities of using the method of psychological portraying in law enforcement, shows the current practice of using psychological knowledge in solving crimes, reveals an integration relationship of other Sciences with psychology with the use of the method of psychological portraying the disclosure of crimes. The article presents a comprehensive approach to the psychological profile of an unknown offender. Psychological portraying of an unknown offender is regarded as a form of analytical work in solving crimes, which integrate information and knowledge from various Sciences such as forensics, criminology, detective work, psychiatry, sexology, victimology, etc. Psychological science (information of its various branches) is a fundamental element that helps to explain, interpret and describe the behavior of the offender and the victim to resolve the problems of law enforcement.

scholarly journals Unburdening the Shoulders of Giants: A Quest for Disconnected Academic Psychology

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 1042-1053
Author(s):  
Dario Krpan
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Information Entropy ◽  
Typically Develop ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
The Core ◽  
Psychological Method ◽  
Academic Psychology ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
Amount Of Knowledge

In current academic psychology, scholars typically develop their research and ideas by drawing on the work of other contemporary and preceding psychological scientists and by following certain conventions of the field. I refer to this variant of psychology as connected because the emphasis is on connecting various research findings and ideas generated by different scholars (e.g., by showing how they are related to each other via referencing). In this article, I argue that, although connected psychology advances psychological knowledge, it restricts the total amount of knowledge that could eventually be produced and therefore limits the potential of the discipline to improve the understanding of psychological phenomena. As a solution, I propose that, alongside the currently existing connected psychology, disconnected psychology should be established. In disconnected psychology, researchers develop their ideas by following the main principles of psychological method, but they are disconnected from a “field” consisting of other psychologists and therefore do not follow the discipline’s norms and conventions. By drawing on one of the core constructs from information theory—information entropy—I argue that combining the two streams of psychology would result in the most significant advancement of psychological knowledge.

Epistemic violence in psychological science: Can knowledge of, from, and for the (othered) people solve the problem?

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-370
Author(s):  
Barbara S. Held
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Primary Target ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
Mainstream Science

A primary target of Indigenous psychologists and critical psychologists is the epistemic violence found in mainstream research. The epistemic violence derives from two alleged mainstream tendencies: (a) omitting concepts/conceptions of othered peoples and (b) interpreting observed group differences to be caused by inherent inferiorities of othered peoples. In seeking remedial research practice, some theoretical psychologists distinguish (a) psychological knowledge from and for the folk, which they advocate and (b) psychological “knowledge” about the folk, the alleged source of objectification of othered peoples. Though seemingly self-evident, this for/about prepositional divide may not be clear. First, mainstream epistemic violence often depends on folk notions. Second, the use in science of folk concepts/conceptions has advanced oppressive purposes, whereas some mainstream findings may serve progressive goals. I exemplify with race concepts, especially racialized essentialism and dehumanization, and I demonstrate how mainstream science sometimes reveals mechanisms of othering that may inform progressive social reform efforts.

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