斯塔茨与心理学的统一

Staats and the Unity of Psychology

心理学界对统一问题的关注由来已久,从威廉.詹姆斯,到勒温、托尔曼等人。弗洛伊德、华生、赫尔、斯金纳等众多研究者也都试图以自己的理论来统一心理学。库恩的《科学革命的结构》对心理学产生了广泛而深远的影响,许多研究者试图为心理学找到一个统一的理论范式。斯塔茨明确指出了心理学的分裂危机,发表或出版了一系列相关论著,为心理学统一工作做了大量组织工作,并提出了具体的整合理论——心理行为主义。他为该领域作出了突出贡献。

From William James to Lewin and Tolman, much attention has been paid to the unity of psychology. Many psychologists such as Freud, Watson, Hull, Skinner tried to unify psychology by their own theories. Kuhn＇s Structure of Scientific Revolutions had a far-reaching influence on psychology. A lot of researchers tried to find a unified theory paradigm. Staats pointed out definitely the crisis of disunity in psychology. He published a series of works, organized the society of studying unity issues and proposed psychological behaviorism as his integration theory. He has made an outstanding contribution for this field.