University of Nottingham.
Am Psychol. 2017 May-Jun;72(4):397-398. doi: 10.1037/amp0000134.
Melchert (2016) argued that knowledge of psychological processes is now grounded in experimental tests of falsifiable theories that support a unified, paradigmatic understanding of human psychology. Although his argument for leaving behind our preparadigmatic past of competing theoretical orientations is welcome, Melchert (2016) presented a perspective in which the degree to which this is currently possible is overstated. In this comment, it is argued that scientific research does not replace paradigmatic assumptions but takes place within them. As such, it is not possible to take the theoretical orientations out of the practice of psychology, which is inevitably an expression of one's philosophical assumptions of first principles. (PsycINFO Database Record
梅尔彻特（2016 年）认为，现在，对心理过程的认识是以可验证的理论的实验检验为基础的，这些理论支持对人类心理学的统一、规范的理解。虽然他主张抛开我们过去范式前的相互竞争的理论取向是受欢迎的，但梅尔彻特（2016 年）提出的观点夸大了目前这种可能性的程度。在本评论中，作者认为，科学研究并没有取代范式假设，而是在其中进行。因此，不可能将理论取向从心理学实践中剔除，因为心理学实践不可避免地是对第一原则的哲学假设的表达。
