Kolstad Arnulf
Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2010 Mar;44(1):58-64. doi: 10.1007/s12124-010-9114-y.
This article focuses on the "machine paradigm" in psychology and its consequences for (mis)understanding of human beings. It discusses causes of the mainstream epistemology in Western societies, referring to philosophical traditions, the prestige of some natural sciences and mathematical statistics. It emphasizes how the higher psychological functions develop dialectically from a biological basis and how the brain due to its plasticity changes with mental and physical activity. This makes a causal machine paradigm unfit to describe and explain human psychology and human development. Some concepts for an alternative paradigm are suggested.
本文聚焦于心理学中的“机器范式”及其对人类（误）理解的影响。它讨论了西方社会主流认识论的成因，涉及哲学传统、一些自然科学的威望以及数理统计。它强调高级心理功能如何从生物学基础辩证地发展而来，以及大脑如何因其可塑性随心理和身体活动而变化。这使得因果机器范式不适于描述和解释人类心理及人类发展。文中还提出了一些替代范式的概念。
