The Individual Subject and Scientific Psychology

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Where is the Individual Subject in Scientific Psychology?....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Psychology as a Science....Pages 17-36
From Idiographic Approaches to Nomothetic Hypotheses....Pages 37-69
The Production, Detection, and Explanation of Behavioral Patterns....Pages 71-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Phenomena Lost....Pages 97-111
Between Groups and Individuals....Pages 113-151
The Individual Subject in Behavior Analysis Research....Pages 153-180
The Time Domain in Individual Subject Research....Pages 181-200
Ordinal Pattern Analysis....Pages 201-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Academic Diagnosis....Pages 235-260
A Method for the Analysis of Patterns, Illustrated with Data on Mother-Child Instructional Interaction....Pages 261-290
The Role of the Case Study in Neuropsychological Research....Pages 291-310
Psychophysiological Activation Research....Pages 311-345
Sequence—Structure Analysis....Pages 347-389
Epilogue: Different Perspectives on Individual-Based Generalizations in Psychology....Pages 391-404
Back Matter....Pages 405-408