Challenges and deficiencies of Mexican psychology [Los retos y carencias de la psicologia Mexicana]

The deficiencies of Mexican psychology with respect to its status as a scientific discipline, its teaching at the university level, and its professional practice are examined. Several measures are proposed so that Mexican psychology faces current challenges

Language, learning and knowledge [Lenguaje, aprendizaje y conocimiento]

A conceptual analysis of the terms knowledge, learning, and language, was conducted order to examine their interrelationships and logical functions for the understanding of behavior. Knowledge and learning are dispositional concepts. Knowing has two different meanings, as declarative knowing and as performative knowing; both corresponding to "capacity" concepts. On the other hand, learning is used as an episodic-achievement concept. I distinguish three different general functions of language and I examine how language and knowledge depend upon the participating language modes