Psychol. Rev. 1941, 48, 404-424.



The Need For A Phenomenological System of Psychology

by Donald Snygg
Oswego State Normal School


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Table of Contents

I. Confusion Due to Data from Two Different Frames of Referencep. 404
II. Inadequacy of the Objective Approach for Prediction of Human Behaviorp. 409
III. The Characteristics of a Phenomenological Systemp. 411
1. The basic postulatesp. 411
2. The problem of predictionp. 413
3. The nature of the fieldsp. 414
4. How fields changep. 414
5. Use of the system in predictionp. 415
6. The conditioned responsep. 416
7. Other concepts of learningp. 419
8. Association or differentiation?p. 420
9. Frequencyp. 420
10. Relationship to the physical sciencesp. 420
11. Advantages to the phenomenological approachp. 421
12. Relation to other systemsp. 422
IV. Summaryp. 423


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