Based on the notion of language-game, as formulated by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the relation ship between language, individual practice, belief and knowledge is examined. Knowing is identified as context-adjusted behavior, under learning or extended exercise, while beliefs are considered as dispositional…

The difficulty of two adjustment task employed in a previous study was experimentally evaluated. Outcomes show that the tasks are not equally difficult and that the obtained results may be partially induced as a procedural bias., Se evaluó experimentalmente la…

This paper critically analyzes the cognitive-map concept in terms oh) its subjectivity, as seen in the characterization of environmental knowledge as “images” of the world; b) its use of the information-processing approach in modeling environmental perception; c) its restricted representation…

Scientific research, as equivalent to methodology of science, has been traditionally approached from different viewpoints as those provided by formal logic, sociological and historical analyses, ethnographic description, and psychological interpretations. A model based upon Ludwig Wittgenstein's notion of language-game is…

The aim of this paper is to analyze some general difficulties in the application of Interbehavioral Psychology to social problems. To accomplish this purpose, some definitions of basic and applied science, as well as of their relationships, are reviewed first.…