Joseph F Rychlak
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 353943 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joseph F Rychlak |
| NOMBRES | Joseph F |
| APELLIDO | Rychlak |
| FIRMA | RYCHLAK J F |
| AFILIACIONES | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1957 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A psychotherapist's lessons from the philosophy of science
A psychotherapist's lessons from the philosophy of science
A number of issues are discussed, but the major themes have to do with the way causation is understood in psychology, the resultant image of humanity as mechanical rather than teleological, and the fact that psychologists can and should be framing people as freely willing agents in their theories even as these views are submitted to rigorous empirical testing in the traditional scientific method. Although the scientific method unavoidably commits…
Escaping Religion
The author states that, although psychology may dismiss religious contents as better suited to other areas of scholarship, it cannot go on dismissing the predicational process that brings religious manifestations about in all known human societies. He suggests that religion is the highest manifestation of the teleological capacity that all humans possess and which motivates human behavior
An Enquiry into the Hermeneutic-Dialectic Method of Inquiry
The Hermeneutic-Dialectic (HD) Method is analyzed in tenns of such theory constmetion issues as theory vs. method, necessary evidence, and process vs. content. Traditional experimental procedure is also contrasted with what takes place in the HD method. It is held that problems with traditional research in psychology stem from theory and not method. Questions are raised concerning data interpretation in the present research, and how such findings…
The role of negation in implication versus inference
Logical Learning Theory
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Logical Learning Theory: a Human Teleology and its Empirical Support. By Joseph F. Rychlak. (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1994. Pp. xix + 387. Price $35.00.) Scott R. Sehon Scott R. Sehon Bowdoin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 183, April 1996, Pages 246–248, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956394 Published: 01 April 1996
A Teleological Critique of Modern Cognitivism
This paper summarizes a teleological critique of modern cognitivism in terms of four points that address the suitability of such mechanistic accounts to explain human cognition: (1) Final-cause formulations are not required to understand mechanical processing, whereas human reasoning cannot be understood without them. (2) Computer theory is exclusively extraspective, but human reasoning demands an introspective theoretical account. (3) A mechanic…
Complementarity means freedom and equality for all
Complementarity means freedom and equality for all
The Heuristic Power of Oppositionality within and Between Paired-Associate Units
Two experiments are presented in which the role of oppositionality as a heuristic aid to paired-associate (PA) learning was examined. In the first experiment, subjects initially formed PA units by proffering antonyms, synonyms, and same-first-letter words to a cue word. Subsequently, both antonyms and synonyms were freely recalled more readily than were same-first-letter words (p < .001). Cued recall favored synonyms over both other conditions (p…
A suggested principle of complementarity for psychology
A suggested principle of complementarity for psychology
Testing a predicational model of cognition
Evidence for a predication effect in deciding on the personal significance of abstract word meanings
The recognition and cognitive utilization of oppositionality
Logical learning theory
Logical learning theory (LLT) is presented as a teleological alternative to most current explanations of human behavior An organism construed as intentional is more suitable to many personality/personological accounts than is an organism construed as mechanical It is first established that LLT is a predicational rather than a mechanical explanation of behavior The concept of telosponsivity is then presented as an alternative to the predominant vi…
The Heuristic Properties of Dialectical Oppositionality in Predication
Two experiments tested the facilitative effect of dialectical oppositionality in a predication learning task. Subjects were college and high school students. Experiment 1 (N = 160) demonstrated that subjects more readily learned descriptive words that predicate a meaning in relation to a targeted item when such words were dialectical opposites than when they were not opposites (p < .001). Experiment 2 (two samples; N = 50, N = 50) compared the he…
The logic of consciousness
Consciousness is analysed in terms of a teleological interpretation of brain functioning. Thanks to the fundamentally dialectical ‐ as well as demonstrative ‐ logic of reasoning in human mentation, it is possible to see how formal and final causation function in higher mental processes. Human behaviour must be understood as a premised activity in which the person qua logician ‘takes a position’ on life's experiences, and in so doing manifests wha…
The Therapeutic Relationship
The subjects of this study are third-year male medical students who rated videotaped male psychiatric patients for likeability before role-playing a `therapeutic' contact with them. Both liked and disliked patients were confronted in the role-play. Each patient said something positive and something negative about himself. The subjects, who are not trained psychotherapists, were instructed to reply to these self-characterizations in a therapeutic …
Relationship Theory
It is argued that relationship theory is a reflection of modern developments in causal theory, away from Newtonian efficient causation to formal causation in the theories of subatomic physics. Mechanistic psychological explanation has foundered on the fact that there are no underlying efficient causes to be found to account for the ultimate patterning of behaviours into relationships. Psychologists no longer need to `reduce' descriptions of perso…
Financial–Acquisitive Life Theme
Recreational–Social Life Theme
Service Life Theme
Marital–Familial Life Theme
The Basic Dependent Variables
Relationship Theory
It is argued that relationship theory is a reflection of modern developments in causal theory, away from Newtonian efficient causation to formal causation in the theories of subatomic physics. Mechanistic psychological explanation has foundered on the fact that there are no underlying efficient causes to be found to account for the ultimate patterning of behaviours into relationships. Psychologists no longer need to `reduce' descriptions of perso…
An expectancy interpretation of manifest anxiety
The similarity, compatibility, or incompatibility of needs in interpersonal selection
Evidence for a predication effect in deciding on the personal significance of abstract word meanings
The recognition and cognitive utilization of oppositionality
The Heuristic Properties of Dialectical Oppositionality in Predication
Two experiments tested the facilitative effect of dialectical oppositionality in a predication learning task. Subjects were college and high school students. Experiment 1 (N = 160) demonstrated that subjects more readily learned descriptive words that predicate a meaning in relation to a targeted item when such words were dialectical opposites than when they were not opposites (p < .001). Experiment 2 (two samples; N = 50, N = 50) compared the he…
The logic of consciousness
Consciousness is analysed in terms of a teleological interpretation of brain functioning. Thanks to the fundamentally dialectical ‐ as well as demonstrative ‐ logic of reasoning in human mentation, it is possible to see how formal and final causation function in higher mental processes. Human behaviour must be understood as a premised activity in which the person qua logician ‘takes a position’ on life's experiences, and in so doing manifests wha…
Logical learning theory
Testing a predicational model of cognition
The Therapeutic Relationship
The subjects of this study are third-year male medical students who rated videotaped male psychiatric patients for likeability before role-playing a `therapeutic' contact with them. Both liked and disliked patients were confronted in the role-play. Each patient said something positive and something negative about himself. The subjects, who are not trained psychotherapists, were instructed to reply to these self-characterizations in a therapeutic …
Affective assessment, intelligence, social class, and racial learning style
Affective evaluation, word quality, and the verbal learning styles of black versus white junior college females
Control and prediction and the clinician
A Socio-Psychological Theory of Performance in Competitive Situations
Recalled dream themes and personality
Clinical psychology and the nature of evidence
An Example of the Use of the Incomplete Sentence Test in Applied Anthropological Research
This paper describes one use of a comparatively simple, semistructured projective technique, the Incomplete Sentence Test (IST). The test has the merits of ready adaptation to varied research problems and relative ease of administration and interpretation. It is offered here as a possible addition to the test battery used by anthropologists engaged in studying individual response to culture change and contact
An Example of the Use of the Incomplete Sentence Test in Applied Anthropological Research
This paper describes one use of a comparatively simple, semistructured projective technique, the Incomplete Sentence Test (IST). The test has the merits of ready adaptation to varied research problems and relative ease of administration and interpretation. It is offered here as a possible addition to the test battery used by anthropologists engaged in studying individual response to culture change and contact
Clinical psychology and the nature of evidence
The Mother-Child Interaction in Psychosomatic Disorders
A Socio-Psychological Theory of Performance in Competitive Situations
Recalled dream themes and personality
The effects of anxiety, delay, and reinforcement on generalized expectancies1
Personality Correlates of Leadership among First Level Managers
Control and prediction and the clinician
An expectancy interpretation of manifest anxiety
The similarity, compatibility, or incompatibility of needs in interpersonal selection
Reinforcement value
A Sociocultural theory of appropriate sexual role identification and level of personal adjustment
A Life-Theme Method for Scoring of Interviews in the Longitudinal Study of Young Business Managers
Longitudinal studies of adult development are reviewed preceding the description of the Management Progress Study, a long-term study of young men in business management. A method for scoring the “life themes” revealed in the lengthy annual interviews with Ss is presented. The nine themes are occupational, ego-functional, financial-acquisitive, locale-residential, marital-familial, parental-familial, recreational-social, religious-humanism, and se…
The idiographic relationship between association value and reinforcement value, and the nature of meaning
The human person in modern psychological science
The application of an affective dimension of meaningfulness to personality‐related verbal learning
Affective evaluation, word quality, and the verbal learning styles of black versus white junior college females
Affective assessment, intelligence, social class, and racial learning style
A nontelic teleology
A nontelic teleology
The Role of Frequency and Affective Assessment in Associative Enrichment
It was hypothesized that the meaningful ordering of events made possible by affective assessment can be shown to influence the generation of word-associates to consonant-vowel-consonant trigrams which have previously failed to reflect such word quality. It was also hypothesized that this associative enrichment is independent of such frequency considerations as the nomothetic association value of the items to be learned, or the number of times suc…
Affection and Evaluation as Logical Processes of Meaningfulness Independent of Associative Frequency
The concept of Reinforcement Value (RV) has been used by logical learning theory as the methodological equivalent of affection. Osgood's Evaluation (E) dimension shares methodological similarities with RV which Potency (P) and Activity (A) do not. Two experiments were conducted which tested the proposition that RV and E are related if not identical methodological constructs. The first experiment (N = 43 male and female undergraduates) employed a …
More on the meaning of transcendence
More on the meaning of transcendence
Logical learning theory
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