Memories of 100 years of human fear conditioning research and expectations for its future.

This special issue celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Little Albert study, published in February 1920, which marked the birth of human fear conditioning research. The collection of papers in this special issue provides a snapshot of the thriving state of this field today. In this Editorial, we first trace the historical roots of the field and then provide a conceptual analysis of the many ways in which human fear conditioning is currently used in theory and treatment development, with special reference to the contributions in this special issue. Ivan P. Pavlov allegedly claimed that "If you want new ideas, read old books". We could not agree more; it is our conviction that tracing the roots of our field illuminates current trends and will contribute to shaping new directions for the next 100 years of research.

Reevaluating the initial impact of John Broadus Watson on American psychology: The necessity of comparative parameters.

In recent decades, various studies have challenged the traditional view that John Broadus Watson's Behaviorist Manifesto prompted a psychological revolution. However, methodological hindrances underlie all these attempts to evaluate the impact of Watson's study, such as the absence of comparative parameters. This article remedies this problem by conducting a comparative citation analysis involving Watson and eight other representative psychologists of the time: J. R. Angell, H. Carr, J. M. Cattell, J. Dewey, G. S. Hall, W. James, E. L. Thorndike, and E. B. Titchener. Eight important American journals were scrutinized for the period between 1903 and 1923, a decade before and a decade after the publication of Watson's Manifesto. The results suggest that even if Watson's study cannot be taken as revolutionary, it had an impact between 1914 and 1923 that was close to Dewey's, Titchener's, and Thorndike's and higher than Angell's, Carr's, Cattell's, and Hall's, although distant from James's. Finally, some methodological implications of this study are discussed.

Building Blocks of Psychology: on Remaking the Unkept Promises of Early Schools.

The appeal and popularity of "building blocks", i.e., simple and dissociable elements of behavior and experience, persists in psychological research. We begin our assessment of this research strategy with an historical review of structuralism (as espoused by E. B. Titchener) and behaviorism (espoused by J. B. Watson and B. F. Skinner), two movements that held the assumption in their attempts to provide a systematic and unified discipline. We point out the ways in which the elementism of the two schools selected, framed, and excluded topics of study. After the historical review, we turn to contemporary literature and highlight the persistence of research into building blocks and the associated framing and exclusions in psychological research. The assumption that complex categories of human psychology can be understood in terms of their elementary components and simplest forms seems indefensible. In specific cases, therefore, reliance on the assumption requires justification. Finally, we review alternative strategies that bypass the commitment to building blocks.

Bringing radical behaviorism to revolutionary Brazil and back: Fred Keller's Personalized System of Instruction and Cold War engineering education.

This article traces the shifting epistemic commitments of Fred S. Keller and his behaviorist colleagues during their application of Skinnerian radical behaviorism to higher education pedagogy. Building on prior work by Alexandra Rutherford and her focus on the successive adaptation of Skinnerian behaviorism during its successive applications, this study utilizes sociologist of science Karin Knorr Cetina's concept of epistemic cultures to more precisely trace the changes in the epistemic commitments of a group of radical behaviorists as they shifted their focus to applied behavioral analysis. The story revolves around a self-paced system of instruction known as the Personalized System of Instruction, or PSI, which utilized behaviorist principles to accelerate learning within the classroom. Unlike Skinner's entry into education, and his focus on educational technologies, Keller developed a mastery-based approach to instruction that utilized generalized reinforcers to cultivate higher-order learning behaviors. As it happens, the story also unfolds across a rather fantastic political terrain: PSI originated in the context of Brazilian revolutionary history, but circulated widely in the U.S. amidst Cold War concerns about an engineering manpower(sic) crisis. This study also presents us with an opportunity to test Knorr Cetina's conjecture about the possible use of a focus on epistemic cultures in addressing a classic problem in the sociology of science, namely unpacking the relationship between knowledge and its social context. Ultimately, however, this study complements another historical case study in applied behavioral analysis, where a difference in outcome helps to lay out the range of possible shifts in the epistemic commitments of radical behaviorists who entered different domains of application. The case study also has some practical implications for those creating distance learning environments today, which are briefly explored in the conclusion.

Of the Artistic Nude and Technological Behaviorism. Leon Harmon and the First Steps towards Neuromorphic Hardware.

Neuromorphic technologies lie at the core of 21st century neuroscience, especially in the "big brain science" projects started in 2013 ­ i.e. the BRAIN Initiative and the Human Brain Project. While neuromorphism and the "reverse engineering" of the brain are often presented as a "methodological revolution" in the brain sciences, these concepts have a long history which is strongly interconnected with the developments in neuroscience and the related field of bioengineering since the end of World War II. In this paper I provide a short review of the first generation of "neuromorphic devices" created in the 1960s, by focusing on the work of Leon Harmon and his "neuromime," whose material history overlapped in a very interesting sense with the visual and artistic culture of the second half of the 20th century.

O impacto da obra de J. B. Watson na psicologia norte-americana: Alguns parâmetros de comparação / The impact of J. B. Watson's work on American Psychology: Some comparison parameters / El impacto de la obra de J. B. Watson en la psicología norteamericana: Algunos parámetros de comparación

O impacto da obra de J. B. Watson tem sido explorado na historiografia da psicologia. Neste âmbito, destacam-se estudos que utilizam como método a análise bibliométrica. Tais pesquisas, no entanto, não utilizam parâmetros comparativos que possam indicar de forma mais precisa o grau de impacto daquela obra. O presente estudo busca preencher tal lacuna por meio de uma análise bibliométrica comparativa das referências às obras de Watson e outros três relevantes psicólogos do período: Edward B. Titchener, Edward L. Thorndike e William James. A pesquisa foi realizada em cinco importantes periódicos norte-americanos da área, entre os anos 1903 e 1923 ­ uma década antes e uma década após a publicação do Manifesto Behaviorista. Os resultados permitem concluir que, embora não possa ser tomada propriamente como um marco revolucionário, a obra de Watson teve, na década posterior à publicação do Manifesto Behaviorista (1914-1923), um impacto próximo ao de Titchener e maior do que o de Thorndike, ainda que distante da influência exercida por James. (AU)

The impact of J. B. Watson's work has been explored in the historiography of psychology. In this context, bibliometric analysis has been often used as a methodological strategy. However, such studies do not present comparative parameters that may indicate more precisely its degree of impact. The goal of this paper is to fill this gap, by making a comparative bibliometric analysis of citations to Watson and three other representative psychologists at that time: Edward B. Titchener, Edward L. Thorndike and William James. Five important American journals were scrutinized for the period between 1903 and 1923, a decade before and a decade after the publication of Watson's Behaviorist Manifesto. The results suggest that, even if it cannot be taken as a revolutionary milestone, Watson's work had, in the first decade after the publication of the Behaviorist Manifesto (1914-1923), an impact similar to Titchener's and higher than Thorndike's, although still distant from James's influence. (AU)

El impacto de la obra de J. B. Watson ha sido investigado en la historiografía de la psicología. En este contexto, se destacan los estudios que utilizan el análisis bibliométrico como método. Sin embargo, estos estudios no utilizan parámetros comparativos que pueden indicar con mejor precisión el grado de impacto del autor. El objetivo de este estudio es llenar este vacío por medio de un análisis bibliométrico comparativo de las citas de las obras de Watson y de otros tres sicólogos importantes en este período: Edward B. Titchener, Edward Thorndike y William James. La búsqueda se realizó en cinco periódicos norteamericanos importantes entre los años 1903 y 1923, una década antes y una década después de la publicación del Manifiesto Conductista de Watson. Los resultados permiten concluir que, aún que no pueda ser tomada propiamente como un hito revolucionario, la obra de Watson tuvo, en la década después de la publicación del Manifiesto Conductista (1914-1923), un impacto próximo al de Titchener y más alto que el de Thorndike, aún que muy distante de la influencia ejercida por James. (AU)

Cuidados de enfermagem ao idoso no fim da vida / Cuidados de enfermería al anciano em el fin de la vida / Nursing care of the elderly in the end of life

RESUMO Esta reflexão emergiu como fruto da prática docente e assistencial aos idosos no fim da vida em um hospital universitário enquanto professoras da Disciplina de Fundamentos de Enfermagem e no atendimento ambulatorial em um Centro de Atenção à Saúde dos Idosos e Cuidadores. No desenvolvimento do artigo, buscou-se pontuar os parâmetros que norteiam o cuidado de enfermagem ao idoso que vivencia sua terminalidade com uma visão existencialista. Enfocou-se a finitude como parte do existir, em que o envelhecimento traz consigo um entendimento de proximidade da morte. A filosofia transpessoal do cuidado de Watson, referencial utilizado neste ensaio, permitiu delinear o cuidado singular ao idoso que vivencia o fim da vida através da descrição dos Elementos e o Processo Cáritas. Deste modo, a Enfermagem utiliza outras ciências para direcionar suas ações e assim possibilitar a escolha de referenciais filosóficos existencialistas como base de conhecimento, visto ser uma profissão que objetiva cuidar da vida da pessoa em sua totalidade. Sugeriu-se um modo de cuidar do idoso no fim da vida valorizando este contexto, onde cuidar é também lhe dar autonomia para ser o senhor da sua história e ter a oportunidade de com ele compartilhar seus últimos momentos.

RESUMEN Esta reflexión ha surgido como consecuencia de la práctica de la enseñanza y la atención a las personas mayores en el final de la vida en un hospital universitario, mientras que los maestros de Curso Fundamentos de enfermería y la atención ambulatoria en un centro de atención de la tercera edad Salud y cuidadores. El desarrollo del artículo buscó para puntuar los parámetros que guían la atención de enfermería al anciano que vive a través de su enfermedad terminal con una visión existencialista. Enfocado a la finitud como parte de la existencia, donde el envejecimiento trae una comprensión proximidad de la muerte. filosofía transpersonal marco de la atención Watson utilizada en este ensayo permitió delinear el cuidado exclusivo de los ancianos que han vivido el final de la vida mediante la descripción de los elementos y el proceso de Cáritas. Por lo tanto, la enfermería utiliza otras ciencias para dirigir sus acciones y por lo tanto hacer posible la elección de referencias filosóficas existencialistas como base de conocimientos, ya que es una profesión que tiene como objetivo cuidar de la propia vida en su totalidad. Se sugirió una forma de cuidar a los ancianos al final de la vida valorar este contexto, donde la atención también se dará autonomía a ser el dueño de su historia y tienen la oportunidad de compartir con él sus últimos momentos.

ABSTRACT This reflection has emerged as a result of the teaching and care practice for older people at the end of life in a university hospital, while teachers of Nursing Fundamentals Course and outpatient care in a care center Health Seniors and Caregivers. The development of the article sought to punctuate the parameters that guide the nursing care of the elderly who lives through his terminal illness with an existentialist vision. Focused to finitude as part of existence, where aging brings a proximity understanding of death. Transpersonal Philosophy Watson care framework used in this trial allowed delineating the unique care to the elderly who experience the end of life by describing the elements and the Caritas process. Thus, the Nursing uses other sciences to direct their actions and thus make possible the choice of existentialist philosophical references as a knowledge base, as it is a profession that aims to take care of one's life in its entirety. It was suggested a way of caring for the elderly at the end of life valuing this context, where care is also given autonomy to be the master of their history and have the opportunity to share with him his last moments.

The Unmaking of a Modern Synthesis: Noam Chomsky, Charles Hockett, and the Politics of Behaviorism, 1955-1965.

A familiar story about mid-twentieth-century American psychology tells of the abandonment of behaviorism for cognitive science. Between these two, however, lay a scientific borderland, muddy and much traveled. This essay relocates the origins of the Chomskyan program in linguistics there. Following his introduction of transformational generative grammar, Noam Chomsky (b. 1928) mounted a highly publicized attack on behaviorist psychology. Yet when he first developed that approach to grammar, he was a defender of behaviorism. His antibehaviorism emerged only in the course of what became a systematic repudiation of the work of the Cornell linguist C. F. Hockett (1916-2000). In the name of the positivist Unity of Science movement, Hockett had synthesized an approach to grammar based on statistical communication theory; a behaviorist view of language acquisition in children as a process of association and analogy; and an interest in uncovering the Darwinian origins of language. In criticizing Hockett on grammar, Chomsky came to engage gradually and critically with the whole Hockettian synthesis. Situating Chomsky thus within his own disciplinary matrix suggests lessons for students of disciplinary politics generally and--famously with Chomsky--the place of political discipline within a scientific life.

[Ivan Solomonovich Beritashvili (1885-1974)--At the Origins of Cognitive Behaviorism].

Presents scientific creativity of I. S. Beritashvili in the cultural and historical aspect. The main attention is paid to the concept of figurative psychoneural activity of vertebrates. I. S. Beritashvili experimentally showed that the image of a vital object is fixed in memory and retrieved therefrom for the satisfaction of vital biological needs. The animal's behavior in such situations is governed not by material incentives, but by their images I. S. Beritashvili was one of the first, who connected figurative psychoneural activity with the brain morphology at the level of nerve cells. Stressed is the importance of the I. S. Beritashvili's concept for the development of evolutionary ethics and bioethics. The figurative of creative psychoneural activity in animals and humans, in fact, is the forerunner of modern cognitive behaviorism.

Early ant trajectories: spatial behaviour before behaviourism.

In the beginning of the twentieth century, when Jacques Loeb's and John Watson's mechanistic view of life started to dominate animal physiology and behavioural biology, several scientists with different academic backgrounds got engaged in studying the wayfinding behaviour of ants. Largely unaffected by the scientific spirit of the time, they worked independently of each other in different countries: in Algeria, Tunisia, Spain, Switzerland and the United States of America. In the current literature on spatial cognition these early ant researchers--Victor Cornetz, Felix Santschi, Charles Turner and Rudolf Brun--are barely mentioned. Moreover, it is virtually unknown that the great neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal had also worked on spatial orientation in ants. This general neglect is certainly due to the fact that nearly all these ant researchers were scientific loners, who did their idiosyncratic investigations outside the realm of comparative physiology, neurobiology and the behavioural sciences of the time, and published their results in French, German, and Spanish at rather inaccessible places. Even though one might argue that much of their work resulted in mainly anecdotal evidence, the conceptual approaches of these early ant researchers preempt much of the present-day discussions on spatial representation in animals.

[Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: does complementarity exist between their theories?]. / Santiago Ramón y Cajal e Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: existe complementariedad entre sus teorias?

INTRODUCTION: Few authors have compared the life and work of Cajal and Pavlov and they refer normally to their coincidence at the XIV Medicine International Congress of Madrid in 1903. AIMS: To describe the theoretical models of both authors and to explain the possible complementarities between the works of Cajal and Pavlov. DEVELOPMENT: We describe the principal bases of the 'neuron theory' of Cajal, compared to the 'reticulated theory', the principal results of Cajal's investigations and the contributions he made to the concept of plasticity. We describe the 'Pavlov's conditional reflections theory', its principal postulates, pavlovians laws and the typology of the nervous system according to Pavlov. CONCLUSIONS: The works of Cajal and Pavlov can be understood as complementary under Wallon's proposal and in the frame of the 'strategic epistemology', where the advance of the science is achieved from different but complementary strategies that help each other to construct stronger theoretical models.

TITLE: Santiago Ramon y Cajal e Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: existe complementariedad entre sus teorias?Introduccion. Pocos autores han comparado la vida y obra de Cajal y Pavlov, y, cuando lo hacen, se refieren generalmente a su coincidencia en el XIV Congreso Internacional de Medicina que tuvo lugar en Madrid en 1903. Objetivo. Presentar los modelos teoricos de ambos autores para estudiar la posible complementariedad entre sus teorias. Desarrollo. Se presentan las principales caracteristicas de la teoria neuronal de Cajal, la teoria reticular que le antecedio, los principales resultados de las investigaciones de Cajal y las aportaciones que brindo al concepto de plasticidad. En cuanto a la teoria de los reflejos condicionales de Pavlov, se describen sus principales postulados, las leyes pavlovianas y la tipologia del sistema nervioso segun Pavlov. Conclusiones. Los niveles de organizacion en los que trabajan Cajal y Pavlov se pueden entender como complementarios si tenemos en cuenta la propuesta de Henry Wallon o las de marcos epistemologicos como la epistemologia estrategica, donde el avance de la ciencia se logra desde estrategias diferentes, pero complementarias, que ayudan a construir modelos teoricos mas fuertes.

The transnational circulation of scientific ideas: importing behavioralism in European political science (1950-1970).

This article aims to deepen our understanding of the transatlantic circulation of scientific ideas during the Cold War by looking at the importation of behavioralism in European political science. It analyses the social, institutional, and intellectual dynamics that led to the creation, in 1970, of a transnational organization that aimed to promote behavioralism in Europe: the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). Using qualitative material drawn from archives and interviews, the study shows that the creation of the ECPR was the joint product of academic, scientific, and political rivalries. It argues that the founding of the organization served a purpose for several agents (chiefly, academic entrepreneurs and philanthropic foundations) who pursued different strategies in different social fields in the context of the Cold War. More broadly, it suggests that the postwar development of the social sciences and the circulation of scientific ideas are best accounted for by mapping sociological interactions between scientific fields and neighboring social spheres.

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

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.

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.

Little Albert's alleged neurological impairment: Watson, Rayner, and historical revision.

In 2012, Fridlund, Beck, Goldie, and Irons (2012) announced that "Little Albert"-the infant that Watson and Rayner used in their 1920 study of conditioned fear (Watson & Rayner, 1920)-was not the healthy child the researchers described him to be, but was neurologically impaired almost from birth. Fridlund et al. also alleged that Watson had committed serious ethical breaches in regard to this research. Our article reexamines the evidentiary bases for these claims and arrives at an alternative interpretation of Albert as a normal infant. In order to set the stage for our interpretation, we first briefly describe the historical context for the Albert study, as well as how the study has been construed and revised since 1920. We then discuss the evidentiary issues in some detail, focusing on Fridlund et al.'s analysis of the film footage of Albert, and on the context within which Watson and Rayner conducted their study. In closing, we return to historical matters to speculate about why historiographical disputes matter and what the story of neurologically impaired Albert might be telling us about the discipline of psychology today.

La legitimización de la semiología psiquiátrica y su conjunción con los conceptos de "normal" y "patológico": una visión en la Era de la revolución (siglos XVIII-XIX) / The legitimization of psychiatric semeiology and its conjunction with the concepts of "normal" and "pathological": a vision during the Age of Revolution (18th-19th centuries)

Este artículo tratará una pregunta esencial: ¿Qué es lo que le va dar validez y legitimidad dentro del ámbito psiquiátrico a la semiología? Para responder, inicialmente se analizan las características,las reglas y algunas de las problemáticas para la configuración de signos como elementos semiológicos y clínicos; enseguida se da una mirada a lo que se entiende por normalidad desde la perspectiva de Georges Canguilehm. Se examinará entonces la historia y los orígenes filosóficos y médico-psiquiátricos de la semiología en lo que se llamó la Era de la revolución. Se sale de la esfera psiquiátrica para tocarel ámbito de la retórica y la oratoria, y su función normalizadora y categorizadora de ciertos signos clínicos relativos al lenguaje, para regresar a la psiquiatría y analizar cómo Michel Foucault de una manera original concibió la sintomatología y la semiología a partir del concepto de "instinto", el eje voluntario involuntario, y la influencia de la neurología en la mitad del siglo XIX. Finalmente, se ve como la estadística y la eugenesia jugarán un papel igualmente importante en la conceptualización de la norma y por ende del discurso científico detrás de los signos clínicos establecidos (AU)

This paper will address an essential question: What is it that will give validity and legitimacy to the psychiatric semeiology? To answer this, initially we analyze the characteristics, rules and some of the issues for configuring semiological signs and clinical elements; next we take a look to what is understood by "normality" from the perspectiveof Georges Canguilehm. We then examinethe history, and the philosophical and medical psychiatric origins of semeiology during what is called the Age of Revolution. To continue, we leave the psychiatric field in order to take a glance of the field of rhetoric and oratory, and the categorizing and normalizing function of certain clinical signs related to language; then we come back to psychiatry and discuss how Michel Foucault conceivedin an original way symptomatology and semeiology as a result of the concept of "instinct", the voluntary-involuntary axis and the influence of neurology in the mid 19 th century. Finally, we analyze how the statistics and the eugenics played also an important role in the conceptualization of the norm and therefore the scientific discourse behind the established clinical signs (AU)

Contributions of Hebb and Vygotsky to an integrated science of mind.

Hebb and Vygotsky are two of the most influential figures of psychology in the first half of the twentieth century. They represent cultural and biological approaches to explaining human development, and thus a number of their ideas remain relevant to current psychology and cognitive neuroscience. In this article, we examine similarities and differences between these two important figures, exploring possibilities for a theoretical synthesis between their two literatures, which have had little contact with each other. To pursue these goals, the following topics are discussed: (a) Hebb and Vygotsky's lives and training; (b) their innovations in theory building relating to an "objective psychology" and objective science of mind; (c) their developmental approach; (d) their treatment of mediation and neuropsychology; and (e) their current relevance and possible integration of their views. We argue that considering the two together improves prospects for a more complete and integrated approach to mind and brain in society.

The reconstitution of political theory: David Easton, behavioralism, and the long road to system.

During the last half of the twentieth century, the concept of system was arguably the most important concept in the theoretical repertoire of the discipline of American political science. Although systems analysis was broadly employed in the behavioral sciences, David Easton's work was particularly influential in the study of politics. This is in part because he attempted to develop a distinct account of the political system that was not theoretically subservient either to general systems theory or to conceptions of the social system such as that advanced by Talcott Parsons. Although a great deal of attention has been devoted to Easton's theory, the origins and evolution of the system concept in his work have not been carefully reconstructed and analyzed.

Under Skinner's skin: gauging a behaviorist from his Rorschach protocol.

Behaviorism and psychodynamic psychology have been regarded as polar opposites. Contrary to popular belief, B. F. Skinner took an interest in Freud and many of his concepts, and agreed to be tested with the Rorschach method and the Thematic Apperception Test by Roe in her study of scientists (Roe, 1953 ). We looked for signs of creativity defined as complex responses, an intriguing emotional tone, novelty, and liveliness. Skinner displayed an enormous number of responses characterized by simplicity, an intellectualized tone, a driven quality rather than creative complexity, and a sense of strained social relationships and lack of liveliness. The findings are in line with Roe's study of other scientists. Skinner's intellectual productivity and high ambition fits well with the commanding figure history describes.