Movements and causes. Manifesto for a naturalistic psychology

Roca i Balasch, Josep

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Movimientos y causas: Manifiesto para una psicología natural

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http://ojs.unam.mx/index.php/acom/article/view/18261

http://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/1200146

Autor

Roca i Balasch, Josep

Institución

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Resumen

Both words in the title of this article are clearly related to Aristotelian thought. Nevertheless, they are still useful to understand present day scientific activity. Psychological explanation is reconsidered, underlying the need to distinguish three different movements ---qualitative, quantitative and evolutive, as welI as different causes as types of dependence-relation. This alIows to represent the functions of different movements in its singularity and interrelation. In reconsidering the concepts of movement and cause, in terms of a manifesto, a general functional scheme of psychological phenomena is proposed. The relevance of the concept of association as a general descriptor of psychological events is emphasized, as welI as the need of taking biological reactions -not the stimulus and response- as the elements of psychological association. It is also suggested the relevance of developing the final dependence in the description of psychological events as qualitative behavior. Field factors are stressed in relation to quantitative changes, in agreement withe Gestalt and Interbehavioral field models. FinalIy, evolutive movement is relevant to the development of efficient determinations in psychology.

Las dos palabras del título de este artículo remiten, inequívocamente, al pensamiento aristotélico. Sin embargo son tomadas como dos palabras plenamente vigentes en la representación del quehacer científico actual. Con esta idea se realiza una reconsideración de la actividad explicativa psicológica que se caracteriza por señalar la conveniencia de la distinción entre movimientos "cualitativo", "cuantitativo" y "evolutivo" por un lado, y por otro la conveniencia de considerar distintos tipos de causa como relaciones de dependencia que permiten representar la funcionalidad de los distintos movimientos, en su singularidad y en su interrelación. El objetivo de esta reconsideración de los conceptos de movimiento y de causa, expresada a modo de manifiesto, es la de ofrecer un esquema de representación funcional general de los fenómenos psíquicos.

Materias

psychology; causality.

psicología; causalidad.

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