Intelligent behavior and language games in the teaching of psychology

Abstract

The teaching of psychology constitutes the process in which the apprentice's behavior with respect to situations defined as "psychological", is progressively submitted to the control of paradigmatic criteria of the discipline. The fundamental purpose of teaching must be to develop effective, varied and novel behavior- in others words, intelligent behavior and not mere repetition of the teacher's behavior. Using the notion of language game, we analyse the different environrnents of psychological practice and its teaching as intelligent behavior.