HISTORICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES CONCERNING BEHAVIORIST APPROACH:
ABOUT THE TRANSITION OF CLASSICAL BEHAVIORISM TO NEOBEHAVIORISM
Keywords:
Classical behaviorism, Neobehaviorism, Logical positivism, PrivacyAbstract
The study was designed to investigate whether the conditions
for the development of the methodological priority as far as its influence on
the study of privacy by a science of behavior could be historical and epistemological aspects of two differents versions of behavioristic
approach: the classical (Watsonian) behaviorism and neobehaviorism.The
procedure consisted in theoretical analysis of bibliografic material concerning
to a) Watson's behaviorism; b) the relations between it and neobehaviorism.
It was observed, as results, that: a) the purpose of Watson's
behaviorism to convert psychology in a natural science had two features:
i) the priority of methodological dimension: and ii) the need of a epistemological
support for it: b) one of the main characterístics of neobehaviorism
was to search that support in logical positivism; c)there are interpretative
controversies in the study of the relations between that two approaches.
These data suggest that relations mentioned above could be a criterion to
make difference between versions in the behavioristic approach, specially
in the demarcation of radical behaviorism.
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