Folk psychology

In folk psychology (English folk psychology ) is defined as - in contrast to psychology as an exact science, and the psychology of nations - the totality of terms of the vernacular, widespread beliefs and habitual modes of explanation that are used traditionally and habitually to action, behavior and other reactions linguistically portray of themselves and others in connection with " inner workings " of mental and emotional nature to understand in one's imagination as well as to explain or predict. Popular psychology, and Intuitive, lay or common-sense psychology are similar terms.

Basis

Folk psychology in the circumscribed sense than the psychology of everyone could have begun in our culture chamber according to said historical observations only good three thousand years ago, gradually emerge. In it is assumed it for granted that all people and sometimes animals have a " heart " with at least similar, if not identical " inner workings " or " impulses ", which is referred to in slang as " inner life". This also includes numerous practical life resulting ideas and beliefs about what play " inner workings " of people when reacting a role; However, they in turn have often conditions which are hardly known in their different and sometimes conflicting nature or be reflected, so that they are often subliminal cause of failure and lack of understanding with long undiscovered and therefore partially far-reaching consequences.

As in everyday life and acquired here incessantly practically proven orientation knowledge, self - or based on your own life on the subjective and used in the daily life management primarily practical purposes can not to get make everyday psychology clearly reaching beyond statements. So they can not explain, for example, the basics and differences of individual learning ability, nor the nature and individual design of our imagination and our ability based on it ability to remember or about the existence and function of dreaming or the associative relationships in dreams. On this basis, however, more psychological relationships can be clarified upon closer inspection of the details thoroughly than is necessary for the ordinary pursuit of life and so well known, as is evident in psychotherapy, in which basically normal colloquial, spoken and incessantly for the understanding in this context of folk psychological concepts are exercised.

In the philosophy of mind is debatable to what extent the concepts of folk psychology are compatible to complement the scientific conceptualizations in academic psychology and its adjacent biological and social science fields or correct.

Differing from the previously represented and almost in contrast, understood as " folk psychology " Georges Politzer design and development of an everyday -oriented and suitable for everyday use psychological science.

Conversely, there are based on the concept of the kitchen latin expression of a kitchen psychology, with a well plate as naive and unreflective way of using folk psychological knowledge is called.

Popular psychology

Similar to the " plausibility central beliefs of many religions of the world " hangs " the popular psychology - the general way to talk about people - [ ... ] of an adequate theory of mental causation from ".

Many cases is not the goal of popular psychology according to Kurt Derungs " [e ] igenes, critical thinking [ ... ]. Rather, the women and men are adapted to a Lehrbgebäude to mentally and interpretation indifferent do not deviate from the ideological line. [ ... ] Knows the popular psychology [ ... ] also a monotheism, founder of a religion and a missionary zeal. "

Mario Bunge and Rubén Ardila write about the pop psychology: "While physicists with a, popular physics ' absolutely can not do anything, is one popular psychology ' is often a quite reasonable starting point of psychological research. In fact, this effort, the area that we have called pop psychology to expand, deepen and free of errors, a pursuit that also includes various insights that can be gained, not least from the great works of art. For this reason, popular psychology will not disappear, but they will probably be improved step by step and enriched by various results of scientific psychology. "