The purpose of science is to provide an account of what is going on behind the phenomena we experience. In psychology, such a task may be approached from two different perspectives. For those espousing a naturalistic–monistic approach, it implies accounting for human behavior via an appeal to explanations by causes. To exponents of a humanistic–pluralistic approach, it will instead entail adopting a teleological outlook via an appeal to explanations by reasons. While presented as an attempt to restore the latter framework to psychological research, Arocha’s account ends up unintentionally endorsing the former, which he purports to reject. It is herein asserted that psychology requires the adoption of a genuinely teleological—that is to say, intentionalistic—framework to account for what is going on behind the observable, thereby contributing to addressing the replication crisis and laying the ground for reforming psychology.

科学的目的是解释我们所经历的现象背后发生的事情。在心理学中，可以从两个不同的角度来处理这样的任务。对于那些支持自然主义一元论方法的人来说，它意味着通过诉诸原因解释来解释人类行为。对于人文主义多元主义方法的支持者来说，它将需要通过诉诸理性解释来采用目的论观点。Arocha 的描述虽然试图将后者的框架恢复到心理学研究中，但最终无意中支持了前者，他声称要拒绝后者。在此断言，心理学需要采用真正目的论的——也就是说，有意的——框架来解释可观察背后发生的事情，