Os problemas do conhecimento humanoe sua relação com a linguagem, objetos clássicos da análise filosófica, receberam no final do século XIX e ao longo do século XX um tratamento original no pensamento moderno, com a chamada virada Iingüistica também designada…

This paper analyzes the contribution of radical behaviorism to teacher education, based on theses and dissertations for the period from 1970 to 2002, encompassing 32 years of Brazilian stricto sensu gradúate programs The study carried out is justified, given the…

Enabling is defined as the set of conditions that permits an active response form when the contact with the stimulus events occurred under reactive modalities. Thirty undergraduate students of psychology participated. Experiment 1 evaluated the enabling effect of the verbal…

A lot of knowledge has already been produced concerning to what is called “creativity”. On the perspective of the Behavior Analysis, “creativity “ has been considered as a behavior, being this understood as a system of relationships that establishes among…

O pragmatismo é apresentado como uma atitude anti-representacionista, isto é, como uma crítica à idéia de fundamentação do conhecimento ou da verdade. Esta crítica torna-se possível a partir de uma interpretação funcional para o problema do conhecimento, segundo a qual…

La psicología cognoscitiva ha planteado el conocimiento de otras mentes como un proceso de extensión por analogía o por generalización de la mente propia. Esta concepción desempeña un papel central en la explicación del desarrollo del lenguaje y la comunicación,…

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…

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…

Based on the theoretical work of Ribes and López (1985) and on Ribes' formulations about intelligent behavior (Ribes, 1981, 1990), the categories of didactic discourse that facilitate its development, are described. These are: a) a varied drill with feedback by…

Según U. Neisser (1976), una teoría psicológica es ecológicamente válida si tiene algo no trivial que decir acerca delo que las personas hacen en situaciones reales y culturalmente significativas. En este escrito defenderé que la teoría pragmatista del conocimiento como…