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Machines and Organisms Machines and Organisms
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The Metaphor of Psychological Construction The Metaphor of Psychological Construction
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The Metaphor of Regulation The Metaphor of Regulation
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Conclusion: The Fundamental Hypothesis of Ecological Psychology Conclusion: The Fundamental Hypothesis of Ecological Psychology
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1 Regulation versus Construction
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Published:January 1997
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Abstract
Western science has been associated with the “mechanistic picture of the world” since the days of the scientific revolution. In addition, much of the prestige that has accrued to science has its origin not in scientific thinking but in technological mastery. It is, therefore, unsurprising that almost every serious attempt to create a scientific psychology has started from the assumption that scientific psychology should be mechanistic. Yet this is a false assumption, and one that misleads in a most pernicious way, because this mechanistic bias is one of the leading reasons why scientific psychology has had so little success at helping us to understand the psychological aspects of reality. This chapter reviews the serious intellectual problems bequeathed to psychology by the mechanistic worldview and begins to suggest an ecological alternative based on the biological concept of the regulation of activity.
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