Abstract

Psychology has continued to formulate and refine a variety of paradigms for providing solutions to the questions of mind. Cognitive and neurological approaches emerged as new techniques and technologies became available. Such paradigms have been necessary to develop the proper methodology for psychological investigation, even as these newly developed methods raise fresh questions concomitant to their answers. Surveyed critically, all of them could not be free from the traditional metaphysics founded in a dichotomy between subject and object, like the current scientific trends. So, it is required that the alternative paradigms of psychology be founded on differing assumptions on the relationship of mind, body and their environment. Given the subject-object dichotomy, constructivist and cognitive approaches tended towards the subjective extremes, but behaviorism and the neurological approaches were just biased to the objective ones. To overcome the dichotic bias, the third entity may be postulated that shares the subject and the object. The new attempt was observed in the ecological approach, Kih might be conceptualized in psychology as a new paradigm. According to the ancient Asian understanding of Kih, it could be defined not as belonging to the subject and the object, but as sharing both extremes. Conceptually, the Kih model provides a high level of refinement in analyzing the relationship between subject and object, the relationship between stimulus and response, the coordination between perception and motion, and other physiological mechanisms. The current experiments showed that Kih affected perceptual changes. The Kih model will hopefully shed light on psychology.