The purpose of this article was to address and to propose answers to three basic questions in psychological science. (a) Why should we care about carefully and rigorously establishing correct meanings for the concepts we employ in our research and clinical work, especially in those cases where foundational concepts such as "behavior," "mental disorder," and "personality" are concerned? (b) How can we move beyond meanings grounded in little more than relatively meager armchair intuition to ones grounded in ways that strongly justify their acceptance as correct and thus might result in consistency and uniformity in the field regarding their meanings? (c) Aside from the standard practices of providing definitions and prototypes, what are some other forms that concept formulation takes in other sciences and could take in psychological science, that is, other means of capturing and demarcating the domains of reference of our concepts? (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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在心理学中建立正确的概念含义：我们为什么要关心，我们该怎么做？


本文的目的是解决心理科学中的三个基本问题并提出答案。（a） 为什么我们应该关心仔细和严格地为我们在研究和临床工作中使用的概念建立正确的含义，特别是在涉及“行为”、“精神障碍”和“人格”等基本概念的情况下？（b） 我们如何才能超越那些仅仅基于相对微不足道的直觉的意义，转向那些以强烈理由证明它们被接受为正确的方式为基础的意义，从而可能导致其含义的一致性和统一性？（c） 除了提供定义和原型的标准做法外，概念表述在其他科学中采取哪些其他形式，在心理科学中可以采取哪些其他形式，即捕获和划分我们概念的参考领域的其他方式？（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。