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What’s still wrong with psychology, anyway? Twenty slow years, three old issues, and one new methodology for improving psychological research.

Recent retrospectives of classic psychology articles by Meehl (1978) and Wachtel (1980), concerning problems with psychology’s research paradigm, have been viewed by
commentators, on the whole, as germane as when first published. However, no similar examination of Lykken’s (1991) classic criticisms of psychology’s dominant research
tradition has been undertaken. Twenty years on, this thesis investigates whether Lykken’s criticisms and conclusions are still valid via an exposition of three contentious issues in psychological science: the measurement problem, null hypothesis significance testing, and the granularity of research methods. Though finding that little progress has been
made, Observation Oriented Modelling is advanced as a promising methodological solution for improving psychological research.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:canterbury.ac.nz/oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/5208
Date January 2011
CreatorsWoods, Bradley Dean
PublisherUniversity of Canterbury. Psychology
Source SetsUniversity of Canterbury
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic thesis or dissertation, Text
RightsCopyright Bradley Dean Woods, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/thesis/etheses_copyright.shtml
RelationNZCU

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