Patrón EF

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ABSTRACT

This manuscript had the purpose to clarify the use of the term attention in psychology, and try to find possible congruence between different schools as cognitivism, behaviorism and interbehaviorism. We conducted a conceptual analysis of the various uses of the concept attention on these theoretical currents, exposing some of their advantages and disadvantages. We also analyzed the term stimulus, and its relationship with the explanationdescription of the phenomenon of attention. We conclude that the three theoretical approaches discussed in this paper share a practice: adoption, explicit or implicit, of organismenvironment dualism and therefore a linear causal model. This promotes the creation of internal or mental entities as the filter for the explanation of psychological phenomena, as well as the need to identify a physical object as a producer or causes of these. Moreover, maintaining the use of the terms stimulus and response promotes in the researcher an arbitrary identification of the information that is attends. Finally, following the arguments of Roca (1993, 2006), attention is proposed as a biological disposition prior to the establishment of psychological phenomena.

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