ABSTRACT

The brief discussions of this chapter are intended to bring out opportunities for developing unified science of psychology. Two apologies are in order. First, these discussions are deeply indebted to work by many previous investigators, but little of this debt can be explicitly considered in these brief sections (see Note 1 in Achievement, p. 372). Second, these sections are bare beginnings. Their main purpose is to suggest issues that may deserve further exploration.

DUAL WORLDS: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL (269)

CONSTRUCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS (274)

INFORMATION LEARNING THEORY (277)

FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO LANGUAGE (284)

HEDONIC THEORY (289)

UNIFIED CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION (293)

INTUITIVE PHYSICS (302)

COGNITIVE ALGEBRA (305)

KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS (306)

ANALYTIC GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY (309)

SCIENCE OF PHENOMENOLOGY (313)

AFFECT AND COGNITION AS INFORMATION INTEGRATION (315)

PERSON SCIENCE (323)

STEREOTYPES (327)

SCHEMA THEORY (332)

IMPUTATIONS AND SCHEMAS (335)

COMPARISON THEORY (337)

VALUATION THEORY (340)

ACTION THEORY (344)

VERBAL REPORTS (346)

NEGATIVITY THEORY (349)

INTERACTION AND CONFIGURALITY (357)

ACHIEVEMENT (365)