Abstract

MARTINEZ, Alma Gabriela et al. Observation and experimentation in psychology: an historical revision. Diversitas [online]. 2007, vol.3, n.2, pp.213-225. ISSN 1794-9998.

A brief history about theoretical and experimental contributions is described of researches to the development of the experimental psychology. In the first part, a revision of the beginnings of the psychophysic and experimental psychology appears. Later, the most important contributions are characterized those studies that involved the studies in psychology animal, structural and functional, finalizing with the Watson and Skinner's behaviorist proposal as the method to study the psychological phenomena. Finally, we discussed the utility of the laboratory studies from the perspective of experimental analysis of behavior, emphasizing the reaches and development in the United States and diverse countries of Latin America

Keywords : Experimental psychology; history; development; study of the conduct.

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