ABSTRACT
The goal of science is the creation of generalizable knowledge. Refocusing psychology’s knowledge-constructive efforts on the theorization of psychological processes cannot happen until a process orientation is consistently manifested in all aspects of methodology. The aim of a theoretically oriented psychology is to understand the inevitable and irreducible variety of human lives. The turn to science-as-method has distracted psychology from the fundamental purpose of methodology: the construction of knowledge about how the human mind works. In the semi-forgotten history of psychology, there have been several attempts to promote ways of eliciting specific psychological processes under conditions where they can be carefully observed. Amin proposes to examine the process of conceptual integration through verbal records. If the goal of psychology is the prediction and control of behavior, then the criterion against which psychological knowledge will be judged is the accuracy of the predictions.
