Psychology has at least three explanatory problems: (a) it continues to form and promote separate schools and camps that mainly work in isolation from each other or against one another; (b) each camp advocates its own vocabulary and set of basic concepts thereby further fractionating the professional identity of psychologists, explains small domains of interest to group members, but cannot provide an overarching perspective capable of transitioning psychology into a mature science; and (c) each minitheory promises mechanism information but only provides functional explanations that impute causality. A potential solution to our explanatory problems is presently available but has not yet been published in an organized way because investigators have not fully appreciated the broader implications of their work. This article aims to articulate those broader implications for psychological science in the form of a network learning theory perspective that provides a common vocabulary and set of three core and eight corollary empirically supported psychological principles. The adequacy of this approach has been proven mathematically.
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