Um caso na história do método científico: do reflexo ao operante

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Ano de defesa: 1990
Autor(a) principal: Sério, Tereza Maria de Azevedo Pires lattes
Orientador(a): Guedes, Maria do Carmo
Banca de defesa: Não Informado pela instituição
Tipo de documento: Tese
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Psicologia: Psicologia Social
Departamento: Psicologia
País: BR
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Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/17365
Resumo: B.F. Skinner's twenty articles and one book. published between 1930-19387 were analyzed with the goal of identifying some characteristics of the transition from the concept of reflex to the concept of operant within the scope of the explanatory skinnerian system. The skinnerian explanatory system's trajectory of construction, from 1930 to 1938, was followed through the concepts of reflex, conditioning, reflex strength and response rate. The original commitment with the concept of reflex, which was already seen within a given conception of science, seems to impose limits to the early formulation of the concept of operant, and seems to imply some dilemmas which the skinnerian explanatory system will have to face in the continuity of its elaboration process