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Ver términos de la licenciaGarcía Penagos, Andrés, et al. (2013). FROM WATSON’S 1913 MANIFESTO TO COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOR. Revista Mexicana de Análisis de la Conducta; Vol. 39 Núm. 2, 2013. Recuperado de https://repositorio.unam.mx/contenidos/40125
Autor(es)
García Penagos, Andrés; Malone, John C.
Tipo
Artículo de Investigación
Área del conocimiento
Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud
Título
FROM WATSON’S 1913 MANIFESTO TO COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Fecha
2013-09-01
Resumen
Watson’s 1913 “behaviorist manifesto” had little effect in the years immediately following its publication. The inconspicuous but indefatigable rise of behaviorism was more of a barbarian invasion than a revolution, and the manifesto played the role of crystallizing sentiment and unifying diverse and tentative efforts under one flag. It also provided traditional psychology, the “low road,” with a favorite punching bag to spar with for mainstream favoritism, a situation which has not changed now a century later. Watson’s views often are misrepresented as naïve and simplistic and as a mere extrapolation of findings based on crude experiments with animals. But it was the objective methods of animal research, not the specific findings, that he sought to apply to human research. Critics and followers alike have often minimized his struggle as Watson tried to provide a psychology that could really account for complex human behavior. In this respect, one hundred years after the publication of the manifesto, behaviorism has yet to fulfill Watson’s promises for a genuinely scientific understanding of our complex subject matter.
Tema
John B. Watson; Behaviorism; Human Behavior; Conditioning; Psychoanalysis
Idioma
spa
ISSN
ISSN: 0185-4534; ISSN electrónico: 2007-0802
