Talk:Modeling (psychology)

message: I am presuming all the time that, this article is about the use of modelling methods and techniques in psychology. But I wonder if I am wrong. In this discussion, I just learned their are all kinds of specific forms of modelling in psychology, like: 
* "Brain modelling" 
* "Cognitive modelling" 
* and "emotion modelling"
And their is a some small literature about "Psychological modelling" but this is not what this article is about. This article is about the "Modelling in psychology, that refers to the process of teaching behavior". 
Now I get even more confused if I search for "Modelling in Psychology" on Google BETA. The first hits are about:
# Catastrophe theory modelling in psychology (1998)
# Computer-modelling in psychology (1988)
# Connectionist modelling in psychology (1991, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005)
# Covariance structure modelling in psychology (1989)
# Formal modelling in psychology (1997)
# Mathematical modelling in psychology (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005)
# Modelling in psychology (1997, 1998, 2003, 2004)
# Mental modelling in psychology (1989) 
# Statistical modelling in psychology (1972)
 
With two example in particular:
;A Concise Psychological Dictionary
:By Petr Nikolaevich Shikhirev, Artur Vladimirovich Petrovskiĭ - Psychology - 1987 - 358 pagina’s
:Page 191
:Modelling (in psychology), the study of psychic processes and states with the aid of their real (physical) or ideal, above all mathematical, models
;N-Dimensional Nonlinear Psychophysics: Theory and Case Studies - Pagina 15
:by R. A. M. (Robert Anthony Mills) Gregson - Mathematics - 1992
:The necessity of one —> many modelling in psychology has been noted also, from a different perspective, by Smithson (1988) in criticising the use of the ...
Maybe I should start from this information all over again and write an own article about Modelling in psychology. - Mdd 19:58, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought that you had actually read this article before putting the notability tag on it and was impugning your motives. Now that I see that you hadn't read the article, I have to wonder why you thought it was not notable. DCDuring 04:38, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this article not about the use of modelling methods and techniques in psychology?? 

message: I've proposed a merge to observational learning and then redirect this page there. ----Action potential  t c 03:38, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If observational learning were the only meaning, I would have done it long ago. I just got my APA dictionary and am trying to use it as an aid when disputes such as this arise. I know of no reason why the dominant meaning of the term in psychology should be deprecated in the pursuit of terminological uniformity. DCDuring 03:56, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What would your article cover that is not already covered by observational learning or imitation or cognitive imitation? These are separate articles. ----Action potential  t c 04:07, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A merge seems like a good idea. I wonder if renaming the article to soemthing like Modelling (observational learning). It has been become clear to me that DCDuring is focussing on a very specific type of modelling with some parts of psychology. - Mdd 18:36, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge current content to observational learing