Abstract:
For studying the nervous system functions, analytical method is fundamentally true, because the facts of behavior for this science are the symptoms of nervous processes. As for psychology, this view is deadly. It seems that most psychologists are beginning to come to such conclusions. The need to study behavior as a whole is becoming ever more insistent; look for laws that organize this whole, directing the individual reactions that make up the whole act of behavior, and giving them meaning. In 1924, experiments were conducted at Moscow State University, with the aim of provoking such reactions, that would regulate behavior, but not only respond to irritation. Conclusions were drawn: 1) any dominant reaction, in addition to being a response to the irritation that caused it, tends to master all behavior in general; 2) this regulatory action of the main reaction is reflected in two kinds of facts: changes that occur in the most dominant reaction (acceleration / deceleration, amplification/weakening, etc.) and in a subordinate reaction (suppression, change of direction, etc.); 3) the simplest law of the structure of the unity of our behavior, apparently, is tendency of reactions to dominance, that is, to the organization of all behavior in their favor; the struggle for a more or less stable domination of one reaction, based not on the suppression of all others, but on the development of a certain result that results in all struggling reactions; 4) human behavior is organized according to the principle of dominance. For psychology, this does not mean the dominant focus of arousal, but the prevailing trend of behavior.
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390668
