Explanatory systems of behavior

Authors

  • Olavo de Faria Galvão
  • Marcus Bentes de Carvalho Neto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v7i1.3201

Keywords:

system, movement, History of Psychology

Abstract

Explanatory systems of behavior have served for behavioral control in every culture. In the history of Psychology, as a modern discipline focused directly on causes of action, different explanatory systems are at the root of heterogeneity and divergence of “movements”. Alternative systems coexist, representing differing philosophical systems in behavioral science. Dualisms, monisms, mechanicisms, idealisms, humanisms, positivisms, materialisms, pragmatisms generated phenomenologies, associationisms, psychodynamics, gestaltisms, behaviorisms, cognitivisms, naturalisms, culturalisms. Orthogonally, or almost so, to the systems, inductive, hypothetic-deductive, experimental methods advance inter-system validation contexts, allowing different systems to use knowledge gathered in other systems. Results from application of each system are difficult to evaluate comparatively. Socio-political-cultural insertion of followers of each system is elevated to take into consideration the role of characteristics of each system, for preparation of a comparative schedule. Brazilian Psychology today is an interesting example of dynamic interaction between the factors enumerated, with systems being accepted or rejected as result of the social insertion of their fellows, as a consequence of the generalized conceptualization of the system.

Keywords: system; movement; History of Psychology.

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Galvão, O. de F., & de Carvalho Neto, M. B. (2003). Explanatory systems of behavior. Interação Em Psicologia, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v7i1.3201

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2003)

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