Cómo progresar mejor en la construcción de teoría en Psicología

Joseph R. Royce

doi:10.24310/espsiescpsi.vi3.13435

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Joseph R. Royce

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https://doi.org/10.24310/espsiescpsi.vi3.13435

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psicología, teoria

Resumen

La creciente aceptación de una epistemología que asume el componente teórico de la ciencia, la presente sobreabundancia de datos, el pluralismo conceptual de la psicología y su estado actual de desarrollo histórico contribuyen a indicar que su futuro desarrollo científico depende crucialmente de avances en la construcción teórica. Se analizan sus características en términos de tres metateorías de poder teórico creciente: programáticas, descriptivas y explicativas. La mejor estrategia de construcción teórica es: en la categoría explicativa, ampliar al máximo su ámbito abarcador mientras se reduce al mínimo de modo parsimonioso el número de sus principios; en la teoría descriptiva, desarrollar una red nomológica bien trabada y de ámbito limitado, aunque con perspectivas de expansión; en la programática consiste en el manejo heurístico del dominio en cuestión iniciando la red nomológica, mediante identificación, caracterización y puesta en relación de algunos de los constructos teóricos relevantes.

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