Psychology: the science of human behavior

Abstract

In this text we will reflect on psychology as a scientific discipline focused on mind and behavior, which initially diverged from philosophy and medicine and has made a long process of recognition as an autonomous science. Since the 19th century, with Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener, William James, John Dewey to the famous Thorndike as main pioneers. Thorndike discovered a premise so important in psychology and applicable to so many human behaviors which is the fact that a stimulus tends to produce a certain response over time, if a given organism is rewarded for that response. Introducing Psychology as a science at the service of humanity in the 21st century is one of the goals of this text. It will reflect on the importance of constructivist paradigms and narrative and the perception of psychotherapeutic reality as a multiverse perspective.