علم النفس والعلوم الطبيعية: قراءة إبستيمولوجية في مساهمة العلوم الطبيعية في تطوير علم النفس موضوعًا، منهجًا، إطارًا نظريًّا

Abstract

This scientific article aims to present an epistemological analysis to understand the chronology of the contribution of the natural sciences to the development of psychology. We have started from the hypothesis that the true sciences have a major role in what psychology has reached today, and that is based on three principles: subject and method, in addition to the theoretical framework. As for the subject of psychology, it was defined from the beginning by the physiologist and Liam James on the subject of feeling. He tried to present a physics approach to study the components of feeling and understand the relationship between these components. Then this subject developed to study behavior with the contributions made by the physiologist Ivan Pavlov in what is called with classical conditioning, which were the first laboratory-based experiments in psychology, this contribution continues to define the topic that psychology works on today, which is behavior and mental processes. The contribution of the natural sciences has emerged through the discoveries that have been made in the field of physiology, such as the discovery of the areas responsible for About language, the study of the sensory system, and the study of the mind... These important discoveries led to the development of psychology at the level of the curriculum on which it became dependent. It moved with cognitive and neurological psychology to rely on new techniques such as brain imaging and some of the methods used.