Re: The Psychological Viewpoint Questionnaire, William R. Miller<\/p>\n
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Behavioral \u2013 12<\/p>\n
Humanistic \u2013 11<\/p>\n
Psychoanalytic \u2013 11<\/p>\n
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At first blush, I recoiled at the fact Behavioral was dominant. I find Skinner to be kind of creepy, so I have rationalized that Social Psychologist Zimbardo (though I am well aware some find Zimbardo kind of creepy) has enough Behavioral aspects, and that has kind of soothed that anxiety!<\/p>\n
In ethics, we might say that I lack \u2018parsimony\u2019. My rationalizations and perspectives don\u2019t follow a particularly consistent and \u2018simple\u2019 perspective. For this evaluation, items 18 and 20 are particularly revelatory:<\/p>\n
18. Little or none of what people do is the result of free will. Behavior is controlled by lawful principles, and free choice is an illusion.<\/em><\/p>\n 20. A person is free to be what he or she wants to be.<\/em><\/p>\n On their face, these would likely have opposite \u2018answers\u2019. If you agree with one, you are more likely to disagree with the other. If this was being scored by either a human or even an algorithm, this pair would likely be checked for \u2018internal consistency\u2019. I agreed with both of these though.<\/p>\n The subtle differences between these two was enough for me to, at least reflexively, agree with item 20 despite the fact I don\u2019t believe in \u2018free will\u2019. I think \u2018want\u2019 is enough of a waffle word which allows me of convincing myself I can agree with both of the items.<\/p>\n But! Back to the overall results. I think it is fair to say that I both accept and reject these approaches equally. I think human \u2018mind\u2019 complexity may very well not be comprehensible by humans, and I think there is a certain kind of arrogance which I associate with the idea that humans are so awesome they can understand everything \u2013 even themselves.<\/p>\n I think lots of approaches (perspectives) can provide value, but I am skeptical any one approach (or even a \u2018set\u2019) can provide definitive understanding (and importantly, for me, \u2018solutions\u2019).<\/p>\n \u2026 kenny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Re: The Psychological Viewpoint Questionnaire, William R. Miller Behavioral \u2013 12 Humanistic \u2013 11 Psychoanalytic \u2013 11 At first blush, I recoiled at the fact Behavioral was dominant. I find Skinner to be kind of creepy, so I have rationalized that Social Psychologist Zimbardo (though I am well aware some find Zimbardo kind … Continue reading Psychological Viewpoint Bonanza!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[219806],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ecrisis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ecrisis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ecrisis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ecrisis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ecrisis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ecrisis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ecrisis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ecrisis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ecrisis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ecrisis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ecrisis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}