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Brad Jesness has added an update

Mar 24,2019

STILL: Looking for lead/head Collaborator to do the needed empirical research likely involving modern technologies

STILL: Looking for lead/head Collaborator to do the needed empirical research (very likely involving eye-tracking and computer assisted analysis of behavior patterns). Here is a post (Question) which may clarify what is needed: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Have_Technologies_in_the_role_of_a_MICROSCOPE_for_psychology_been_developed_which_can_now_be_used_to_investigate_important_observational_specifics (Please try to ignore the spam &quot;Answers&quot; from someone else below the Question and below my top 2 Answers.

Brad Jesness has added an update

Mar 24,2019

What is offered here Is INDEED THE BASIS OF/FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT in General and Developmental Psychology

OFFERED HERE: a full-fledged paradigm shift for General Psychology and Developmental Psychology. The paradigm shift provides: (1) new, better-justified (more-likely-true) ASSUMPTIONS; (2) NEW OBSERVATIONS SOUGHT (to be made) AND (3) NEW WAYS to make those observations; (4) new standards for good, real empiricism and (5) new, unique (and wonderful-if-true) testable (verifiable/falsifiable) HYPOTHESES -- of GREAT consequence if true . This paradigm shift (which more than satisfies Kuhn's criteria) is provided via the Project on Ethogram Theory and all the References -- major papers and the BOOK -- and other material notes or links noted via the Project Log (aka Updates). Here is a link to the Project and, below that, find the 2 links to the major writings (all related and over 700 pages long). First the Project link: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Human-Ethology-and-Development-Ethogram-Theory-A-Full-Fledged-Paradigm-Shift-for-PSYCHOLOGY and now the links to the MAJOR References: A Human Ethogram: Its Scientific Acceptability and Importanc... AND &quot;Essentially, all Recent Essays on Ethogram Theory&quot; Also, for a quick overview of the major basic ideas, see the Question, https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_a_FULL_NEEDED_REAL_paradigm_shift_FOR_PSYCHOLOGY_also_provide_an_advanced_view_for_General_AI2 AND _ MOST IMPORTANT _ , WITHIN THAT Question, NOTE ESPECIALLY: the link provided there for the real &quot;meat&quot; of a quick overview -- AND here is THAT link, also repeated here-and-now: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_Generalized_AI_needs_to_establish_a_concrete_foundation_of_developmental_levels_stages I assure you, if you want to understand what a paradigm shift really looks like, read these works (noted above; about 700 pages); even, if for some reason you &quot;disagree&quot;, that at least you will have learned what is involved in a Psychology paradigm shift -- MUCH more than you can learn from Kuhn (as perhaps reflected by the 5 points in the first paragraph of this Answer ). P.S. This paradigm shift ENDS all the nonsensical nature vs nurture debates; it provides concrete empirical bases for ABSTRACT CONCEPTS AND ABSTRACT THINKING (allowing psychology to be fully empirical, not to mention, well-grounded and well-founded ** ); AND all understandings are in terms of behavior PATTERNS (and not separate or distinct &quot;behaviors&quot;) -- which is in accord with us being biological organisms (&lt;-- known for organized SYSTEMS). PLUS, much of what now referred to as &quot;learning&quot; is recognized expressly as changing QUALITATIVELY, following along with qualitative changes in concepts and thinking during ontogeny. (Psychologists today, in reality, OFTEN do not know what they are talking about when invoking a &quot;learning&quot; explanation.) I hope I have provided enough to spark your interest. Final, true understandings will be in terms of behavior patterns and not &quot;brain activity&quot; (of course: what are the final referents in a science of behavior?). Psychology as the science of behavior patterns and associated environmental aspects is not dead (though it has been dying); this paradigm shift salvages this soon-to-be SCIENCE. ** FOOTNOTE: Psychology better adopt the changes proposed or General AI will (and, once again, 'outside' &quot;information-processing theories&quot; will lead psychology). Here's the reason: only the system presented with Ethogram Theory is concrete enough and clear enough to be &quot;mechanized&quot; -- not to mention: to be understandable (so the agreement science typically finds among its practitioners can be present).

Brad Jesness has added an update

Mar 21,2019

A Paradigm Shift (full and real and fully empirical, literally to the extent possible, and VERY likely to the extent needed)

This Project, with its set of References (Articles and BOOKS, &amp; Updates (see Project Log)) may be formally considered a full-fledged PARADIGM SHIFT: a set of related changes for General and Developmental Psychology, having: Better basic core assumptions (foundational and consistent with clear, truly empirical groundings for everything, &quot;down to&quot; each and EVERY concept or construct); it is a stricter, clear &amp; better empiricism, always; better foundations for ALL cognitive processes (always minimally including grounding in some directly observable overt phenomena at KEY TIMES); clear, unique, MAJOR NEW observations are sought VIA NEW observation methods; and NEW, clear, empirical, verifiable/falsifiable HYPOTHESES are presented. AND, THE CONCRETE EMPIRICAL BASES OF ABSTRACT THOUGHT ARE CLEARLY OUTLINED (these bases being distinctly and directly observable overt phenomena, present at KEY TIMES -- and with distinct effects reliably showing in some current and continuing (and developing) major cognitive phenomenon, always).