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…

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…

Fuentes' radical behavioral concept of a generalized, discriminated contingency that stresses the copresent nature of behavior as a phenomenal and operative process of achievement, is broken down into the categories of knowledge and effect, which are basic characteristics of behavior…

In the present work, I describe my own version of selectionism as a founding philosophy for attempts to synthesize the biological and the psychological, Selectionism constitutes a metanarrative that is conventionalist (for it rejects an essentialist theory of definition), experimentalist…

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…

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…