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The concept of adaptation‐level in psychological research

Author(s) -

VUORINEN RISTO

Publication year - 1973

Publication title -

scandinavian journal of psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743

H-Index - 72

eISSN - 1467-9450

pISSN - 0036-5564

DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1973.tb00116.x

Subject(s) - psychology , adaptation (eye) , confusion , flexibility (engineering) , social psychology , heuristic , value (mathematics) , limit (mathematics) , scope (computer science) , psychological adaptation , cognitive psychology , epistemology , psychoanalysis , statistics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , neuroscience , computer science , programming language

Vuorinen, R. The concept of adaptation‐level in psychological research. Scand. J. Psychol., 1973, 14, 228–240.‐ Helson's adaptation‐level theory (ALT) is appraised as a general theory of psychology. The reformulated Fechner law underlying ALT is shown to be untenable and the conceptual status of AL is shown to be self‐contradictory. The ambiguous measures and the inconsistent theoretical definitions proposed for AL are found to limit the scope of ALT. Reasons for its flexibility and claimed heuristic value are analyzed and potential sources of confusion are suggested. Some defects of ALT are likely to be shared by other behaviouristic theories since they follow from a commitment to the strict S‐R model.

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