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PALMERO, FRANCISCO; GÓMEZ, CONSOLACIÓN; CARPI, AMPARO; GUERRERO,
CRISTINAPerspectiva histórica de la psicología de la motivación
Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana, Vol. 26, Núm. 2, julio-diciembre, 2008, pp. 145
-170
Universidad del Rosario
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Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana
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Perspectiva histórica de la psicología de la motivación
Historical perspective of the Psychology of motivation
FRANCISCO PALMERO*, CONSOLACIÓN GÓMEZ,
AMPARO CARPI, CRISTINA GUERREROUniversitat Jaume I de Castellón, España

Abstract

Resumen

The psychology of motivation has a long tradition
and history in psychology. In fact, we consider that,
to a certain extent,understanding the history of the
psychology of motivation is understanding great
part of which has been psychology itself, since
the main target of psychology was, and is, to try to
explain behaviour, andthe aim of psychology of
motivation is to find out the causes of behaviour.
In its long passage to the present time, there have
been three perspectives that have monopolized
most of theinvestigation: the biological, the behavioural and the cognitive. They are not excluding.
Each one of them has been predominant in certain
stages, although the same attention was paid to the
other two.Nowadays, the biological and cognitive
perspectives are those that receive greater attention
from the investigators. The historical direction in
the study of the psychology of motivation represents an...