ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1988, this title explores and contrasts means and ends psychology with conventional psychology – that of stimuli and response. The author develops this comparison by exploring the general nature of psychological phenomena and clarifying many persistent doubts about psychology. She contrasts conventional psychology (stimuli and responses) involving reductionistic, organocentric, and mechanistic metatheory with alternative psychology (means and ends) that is autonomous, contextual, and evolutionary.

chapter 1|7 pages

Psychology as Protoscience

chapter 2|7 pages

Subject Matter

chapter 3|10 pages

Origins

chapter 4|9 pages

Consensible Reality

chapter 5|9 pages

Acts as Raw Materials

chapter 6|14 pages

Means and Ends

chapter 7|16 pages

Contingencies

chapter 8|12 pages

Radical Behaviorism

chapter 9|15 pages

Organism and Person

chapter 10|13 pages

More on Persons

chapter 11|15 pages

Structure and Content

chapter 12|16 pages

Means-End Interpretation

chapter 13|16 pages

Stimulus-Response Psychology

chapter 14|6 pages

Final Comments