[email protected] Abstract: The paper reviews a number of concepts and mature theories in the psychological literature on memory and forgetting. Six theories of forgetting are outlined. Issues are reviewed concerning the correspondence between concepts in psychology and knowledge management and engineering. Of the six theories, the motivated forgetting theory and the displacement theory are r...

• Theories of intelligence must evolve by formalizing the developmental dynamics cognitive ability. The paradigm shift from factor theories to network has created perfect conditions formalize dynamics. formalization demands identification robust phenomena and empirically grounded mechanisms. Twentieth century theory formation in human was dominated theories; will dominate twenty first. Network ...

Evidence-based psychotherapy requires clinicians to consider theories of psychopathology and evidence about effectiveness, and their experience when choosing interventions. Research on clinical decision making indicates that clinicians' theories of disorders might be personal and inform judgments and choices beyond current scientific theory and evidence. We asked 20 child therapists to draw mod...

Product meanings may have many connotations depending on which theoretical perspective is hold. A considerable amount of research has been conducted on theories of psychological responses to products. However, less attention has been paid to relate product meanings to theoretical foundations of theories. Current study is an early attempt to classify product meanings according to their theoretic...

The dominant belief is that science progresses by testing theories and moving towards theoretical consensus. While it’s implicitly assumed psychology operates in this manner, critical discussions claim the field suffers from a lack of cumulative theory. To examine paradox, we analysed research published Psychological Science 2009–2019 ( N = 2,225). We found mention 359 in-text, most were referr...

One of the most important issues in the field of organizational behavior studies is the identification of positive psychological resources and capacities, which considerably affect individuals’ job performance. Therefore, the present research aims to study and identify the effects of attachment on psychological capital. With regard to the purpose, this research is applied and in regard to data ...

at the beginning of 20th century, psychology got a special status in contemporary criticism (or critical approaches) through the theories of freud and jung. literary works were being criticized by such approaches on the basis of the text sender (author or poet), after a while, with the rise of other psychological schools – such as gestalt- they started to be criticized on the basis of their inf...

Drawing on the philosophy of psychological explanation, we suggest that science, by focusing effects, may lose sight its primary explananda: capacities. We revisit Marr’s levels-of-analysis framework, which has been remarkably productive and useful for cognitive explanation. discuss ways in framework be extended to other areas psychology, such as social, developmental, evolutionary bringing new...

Words, Thoughts and Theories argues that infants and children discover the physical and psychological features of the world by a process akin to scientific inquiry, more or less as conceived by philosophers of science in the 1960s (the theory theory). This essay discusses some of the philosophical background to an alternative, more popular, “modular” or “maturational” account of development, di...