Toward a process approach in psychology : stepping into Heraclitus' river

Toward a process approach in psychology : stepping into Heraclitus' river /

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Main Authors: Geert, Paul van (Author), Ruiter, Naomi M. P. de (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Psychology > Philosophy.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Change, the Final Frontier: Introducing a Process Approach to Psychology
  • 1.1. What Are Processes?
  • 1.2. Introducing the Juxtaposition: A Substance Approach versus a Process Approach
  • 1.3. Our Positions: Critical Realism and Plurality
  • 1.4. Non-Linear Roller-Coaster Ride through the History of Process Philosophy
  • 1.5. It's All Greek to Me: Concluding Remarks
  • 2. (Selected) Foundation for a Process Approach: Complex Dynamic Systems Theory
  • 2.1. What Is a Complex Dynamic System?
  • 2.2. What Is a Dynamic System?
  • 2.3. What Is a Complex System?
  • 2.4. Properties of Complex Dynamic Systems (in the Context of Psychological Constructs)
  • 3. Goal of Socrates: Philosophical Foundations for a Value-Laden, Action-Based Praxis of Research
  • 3.1. Memorable Soccer Game
  • 3.2. Philosophical Foundations of Doing Science: Aristotle's Scheme of Knowledge
  • 3.3. Psychological Science and Arendt's Notion of Praxis: Thinking, Doing, and Producing
  • 3.4. Constructivist, or `Practice Turn', in the Theory of Science
  • 3.5. Foundations Set
  • 4. Esteeming Entities: Enacting a Substance Ontology in Self-Esteem Research
  • 4.1. Critical-Realism Stance toward Praxes
  • 4.2. Self-Esteem Research as a Case Study
  • 4.3. Reflecting on the Enactment of a Substance Ontology in Self-Esteem Research
  • 4.4. Conclusion: The Enactment of a Substance Ontology in Self-Esteem Research
  • 5. Person Acting amongst Persons: Enacting a Process Ontology in Self-Esteem Research
  • 5.1. On the Nature of Self-Esteem from a Process Philosophy
  • 5.2. Descriptions and Conceptualizations of Self-Esteem as Processes
  • 5.3. Separate Roads of Knowledge Construction?
  • 5.4. Self-Esteem in the Real World: Experiencing the Stability and Flux of Self-Experience
  • 5.5. Conclusion: The Enactment of a Process Ontology in Self-Esteem Research
  • 6. Cliffhangers and Utilitarian Infants: On How Classification and Science Communication Create Worlds
  • 6.1. Crossing the Visual Cliff and Failed Experiments
  • 6.2. Text and the Creation of Infant Economists
  • 6.3. Conclusion
  • 7. Causes, Kings, and Interventions: Causality and Explanation in Mainstream Psychological Theory and Research
  • 7.1. Effectiveness of Psychotherapies: Questions for a Health Insurance Company
  • 7.2. Causality and the Wish to Make a Difference
  • 7.3. Causality and the Wish to Explain
  • 7.4. Toward Processual Explanations: Tinbergen's Framework
  • 8. (Compl)explanation and King Alfonso's Lament: Complex Dynamic Systems and Causal Explanation
  • 8.1. Playing a Simple Tune
  • 8.2. Process as Cause
  • 8.3. Process Characteristics Relevant for Causality
  • 8.4. Features of Complex Process Causality
  • 8.5. From Abstract to Concrete: Specifying Causality in Complex Systems through Models
  • 8.6. Condusion: Causality Is Interaction and Interaction Is Causality
  • 9. What's in a Name?: On the Ontology of Psychological Measurement
  • 9.1. Understanding (Psychological) Measurement
  • 9.2. Ontology Enacted in Standard Psychological Measurement
  • 9.3. Psychological Measurement and the Enactment of a Process Ontology
  • 10. (Un) Certainties: Epistemological Issues of Psychological Measurement
  • 10.1. Colours of Uncertainty
  • 10.2. Observation and Measurement as Processes of Uncertainty Management
  • 10.3. Vagueness and Ambiguity as Forms of Uncertainty
  • 11. Troubled Waters of Heraclitus' River?: A Process View on Reproducibility and Generalization in Psychological Research
  • 11.1. Reproducibility Crisis
  • 11.2. Picking Apart the `Crisis'
  • 11.3. Process Approach to Generalization and Reproducibility
  • 11.4. Conclusion: Stepping into the River
  • 12. Psychological Science as a Complex Dynamic System: From an Entrenched Substance-Oriented Praxis to the Emergence of a Process-Oriented Praxis
  • 12.1. Mechanisms of Praxis Development
  • 12.2. Created Ontologies Accepted as Realities
  • 12.3. Bringing about Change to the Mainstream Praxis
  • 12.4. Multi-Stable Praxis: A Tug of War
  • 12.5. Conclusion.

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