Recepción del conductismo en Argentina y Brasil: Un estudio de dos universidades, 1960-1970 / Behaviorism reception in Argentina and Brazil: A study of two universities, 1960-1970

RESUMEN

Describimos y analizamos la recepción del conductismo en Argentina y Brasil, a través de dos ejemplos la Universidad Nacional de San Luis y la Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. En Argentina, desde 1960 el conductismo fue ampliamente criticado. Excepcionalmente en San Luis en la década de 1970 hubo un grupo de estudiantes y psicólogos jóvenes que fue receptivo a este modelo por razones ideológicas, profesionales y científica. En Brasil, durante esas décadas, la creación de carreras de grado de psicología comenzó a extenderse. El conductismo circuló a través del laboratorio didáctico del análisis del comportamiento. La recepción del conductismo en estos países nos ayuda a entender la circulación del conocimiento psicológico en diferentes lugares. También nos muestra cómo cada uno de estos sitios ha incorporado el conductismo en su propio contexto.

ABSTRACT

We are describing and analyzing the reception of behaviorism in Argentina and Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s. We look deeply at two examples the Universidad Nacional de San Luis and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. In Argentina, the first psychological courses took place during the late 1950s and early 1960s when behaviorism was widely criticized. In the 1970s, exceptionally in San Luis, there was a group of students and young psychologists that were receptive to its model for ideological, professional and scientific reasons. In Brazil, during those decades, the creation of psychology undergraduate courses started to spread. Behaviorism has circulated through the didactic laboratory of behavior analysis in those psychology courses. The reception of behaviorism in these countries helps us to understand the circulation of psychological knowledge in different places. It also shows us how each one of these places incorporated behaviorism uniquely into its own context.