Comparative Psychology: A Perspective Rather than a Discipline. Commentary: A Crisis in Comparative Psychology: Where Have All the Undergraduates Gone?

Frontiers in Psychology

Cinzia Chi¹ 

关键词: comparative psychology;    mind-brain;    discipline;    perspective;    undergraduates;    recruitment;    cognition-emotion;    comparative cognition;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01828

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In the Twentieth Century animal behavior was studied by European ethologists and American behaviorists. By fusing these approaches, comparative psychology became the framework for addressing animal behavior issues and understanding psychological functions shared by a variety of species. Relying on interspecies comparisons, comparative psychology complements developmental psychology and differential psychology, which are focused on intraspecies comparisons. All are better conceived as integrable perspectives, we think, rather than disciplines.

【 授权许可】

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