比较心理学是研究动物行为进化的基本理论和不同进化水平的动物其各种行为特点的心理学分支，它为科学心理学的发展发挥了提供佐证和实验证明的作用，也为后来的机能主义心理学、格式塔学派、行为主义心理学的兴起和发展奠定了不可动摇的实验基础。通过对比较心理学的历史渊源、研究内容、研究方法、研究意义、研究困境和转折发展这五个基本问题的探讨来进一步理清比较心理学走向科学化、客观化研究的过程，并指出其困境和转折发展的历程。%Comparative psychology is an branch of modem psychology , which researches the basically evolutionary theory of animal behaviors and the characters of different animals in different evolutionary stags. Comparative psychology provided the examples and experiments for scientific psychology. It also set a static foundation for the development of the Functional Psychology, the Gestalt Psychology and the Behavior Psychology. The authors tried to clarify the five basic themes in order to make it clear how the comparative psychology developed scientifically and objectively. In the end, they discussed the difficult situation of comparative psychology and its transformation.
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