Flexibility, Rigidity, and Adaptation: Toward Clarification of Concepts

摘要: One of the most striking manifestations rigidity among psychologists is their persistent clinging to discredited concepts, such as “rigidity.” Consideration a construct likely generate discussion syntactics rather than semantics: study language habits people who use concept, events which concept refers. imaginative and clear-thinking contributors this topic, Raymond Cattell, has called attention “the confusion that will persist so long some fail recognize in using same term ‘rigidity’ they are assuming single characteristic or process where, fact, there several.” (Cattell Tiner, 1949, p. 321).