APA Citation:
Luciano, M. C., Gómez, I., & Valdivia, S. (2002). Consideraciones acerca del desarrollo de la personalidad desde un marco funcional-contextual. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 2(2), 173-197.
Type of Publication:
Behavior Analysis: Conceptual
RFT: Conceptual
Abstract:
In this paper we present an analytic essay in a functional-contextual conceptualization based on the recent research on verbal behavior, behavior-behavior relations and derivation of psychological functions. Classical conceptualizations are viewed with predictive value although reduced implication for preventing and altering the developmental process of personality. In a functional perspective, the basic elements are defined in terms of responses classes under the control of particular contingencies of reinforcement. In this paper, we focus, in the one hand, in the early development of conditioned reinforcers to the later developmental process of values encompassed by the development of language as a symbolic behavior. On the other hand, we focus in the development of basic response classes and some of the contents of personality in the context named as self-knowledge. This analysis of personality is concerned in a ontogenetic context and so through multiple interactions in which the child is involved from his/her birth. Consequently, the development of these basic elements of personality is contextualized, necessarily, under the cultural values defining historical moments by the corresponding verbal community as a whole. However, the interest in this paper is more addressed to the individual child-adults interactions that needless to say are adjusted in one way or another to the sociocultural frame. Given that, the paper concludes with an appeal to the adults' responsibility in the development of basic component of personality.
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Key Words:
Personality devolopment, functional analysis, contextual analysis, individual history, values, selfknowledge, language