Matching to sample as a justification for conceptual errors

Authors

  • Rosendo Hernández-Castro National Autonomous University of Mexico image/svg+xml
  • Patricia Romero Sánchez National Autonomous University of Mexico image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18800/psico.199701.005

Keywords:

conceptual error, matching to sample, methodology

Abstract

A brief analysis is carried out on the multiple uses that the methodology of matching to sample has in behavioral research. The relevance of the use of these tasks in the study of different types of psychological mechanisms in animals is discussed, acknowledging that it is unnecessaty to use, in behavioral research, many names to make reference to those mechanisms. A conceptual-historical analysis is proposed as a study tool to emphasize the risks of considering a type of methodology that can induce causal effects on behavior.

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Author Biographies

  • Rosendo Hernández-Castro, National Autonomous University of Mexico

    Es licenciado en psicología, profesor e investigador en la UNAM-Iztacala, México. Tiene en su haber la publicación de artículos en revistas internacionales como coautor y un capítulo en libro como coautor.

  • Patricia Romero Sánchez, National Autonomous University of Mexico

    Mención Honorífica en el examen de licenciatura. Es profesora de Asignatura en la Facultad de Psicología del UNAM. Es estudiante de la Maestría en Psicología, ENEP Iztacala-UNAM. Tiene en su haber dos publicaciones como coautora en revistas internacionales.

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Published

1997-05-18

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (1997)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Matching to sample as a justification for conceptual errors. (1997). Revista de Psicología, 15(1), 135-149. https://doi.org/10.18800/psico.199701.005