Scarantino Andrea
Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Behav Brain Sci. 2025 Jan 31;48:e42. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X24000530.
Murayama and Jach criticize the use of high-level motivational constructs in psychology, urging psychologists to "unpack" the black box. These constructs are alleged to be "psychological constructions" with no causal powers of their own. I argue that this view is mistaken, and that high-level motivational constructs are causal even when unpacked in terms of underlying computational, algorithmic, and implementational processes.
村山和贾赫批评心理学中对高层次动机结构的使用，敦促心理学家“打开”这个黑匣子。这些结构据称是“心理建构”，自身没有因果效力。我认为这种观点是错误的，并且即使根据潜在的计算、算法和实现过程对高层次动机结构进行剖析，它们也是具有因果关系的。
