[HTML][HTML] How a cognitive psychologist came to seek universal laws

RN Shepard - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2004 - Springer
Myearly fascination with geometry and physics and, later, with perception and imagination
inspired a hope that fundamental phenomena of psychology, like those of physics, might …

Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science

RN Shepard - Science, 1987 - science.org
A psychological space is established for any set of stimuli by determining metric distances
between the stimuli such that the probability that a response learned to any stimulus will …

Systems and theories

MH Marx - The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In American psychology, systems and theories historically have been closely associated. For
this reason, it is important that students of psychology know at least the essence of the major …

Theoretical psychology

G Bergmann - Annual Review of Psychology, 1953 - annualreviews.org
436 BERGMANN to features of the behaving organisms' physical environment or, in physio
logical terms, to physiological states or events inside their bodies. The laws of psychology …

Humanistic cognitive science.

G Hovhannisyan - The Humanistic Psychologist, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
This article ventures to explore the conceptual space where humanistic psychology and
enactive cognitive science meet so as to lay out the practical and philosophical foundations …

The place of theory in a world of facts

HJ Eysenck - Annals of Theoretical Psychology: Volume 3, 1985 - Springer
When it is frequently said, following Kuhn, that social science in general, and psychology in
particular, is in a preparadigmatic phase, this may be interpreted to mean that there are no …

Epilogue: different perspectives on individual-based generalizations in psychology

J Valsiner - The individual subject and scientific psychology, 1986 - Springer
The role of the individual subject in scientific psychology has always been a controversial
issue in psychology. Throughout the aim of the present volume was to analyze some of the …

Psychology from the standpoint of a generalist.

GA Kimble - 1992 - psycnet.apa.org
This reprinted article originally appeared in (American Psychologist, 1989, 44 [3], 491-
499).(The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 1989-28023-001.) …

Shepard's universal law supported by honeybees in spatial generalization

K Cheng - Psychological Science, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
An animal that is rewarded for a response in one situation (the S+) is likely to respond to
similar but recognizably different stimuli, the ubiquitous phenomenon of stimulus …

Must psychology be individualistic

F Egan - The Philosophical Review, 1991 - JSTOR
A widely held and intuitively plausible tenet of computational psychology holds that if two
individuals are identical in all physical respects then they are psychologically identical as …