vol. 1 núm. 1 (2005)

From the appearance, by near ten years, of the surrealist movement, a preliminary outline of some of the characteristics of one of the representatives of this literary school will become, Oliverio Girondo, from a poem of the book Twenty poems to be read in the streetcar, of which were two positions, in appearance antagonistic on the vanguard, derived in a antistyle or decay from the modern principles (Calinescu, 1991) and one possibility of critic to the art institution (Bürger, 1987). These positions allowed to establish some reflections about the general concept of social saturation that postulates the social constructionism and characteristics that Mukarovsky proposes (1992) on the structuralist critical theory. Index terms: literary vanguard, social constructionism, surrealism, structuralism.

The purpose of this investigation is to describe the standards of beliefs concerning health/illness in a group of students in private schools Bogotá, and to determine its relation with the behavior of this population. Questionnaire CCHS-98 elaborated by GilRoales, it was applied to a group of students 14-18 years old, mostly from average social/economic status. According to the results, the sample presents a profile of medium to high risk in 66.8 percent, and a lesser experience relating to health in similar proportion (64.8 percent). Relation between profiles of risk and personal attribution toward smoking were encountered which indicates that even though a population tends to acquire the habit. The events are perceived as dependant upon personal factors which constitute a valuable recourse for prevention. The results make evident the factors of risk and protection in this population in particular, and these results can be useful in designing primary preventive programs for these young people. Index terms: beliefs, habits, risk profile, personal attribution, prevention.

In this article, a brief description is realized about the disorders of feeding, anorexia and bulimia, the relationship made by individuals with this behavior, the prevalence, characteristics and the most effective treatments used for the bulimia nervous. And also some approximations to establish kinds of bulimia different of the DSM-IV and researches about this disorder of the feeding behavior which is the nervous bulimia. Index terms: feeding disorders, bulimia, processes, kinds.

The article discusses the narrative like a propitious genre to promote understandings that integrate the psychological, social and cultural universes. The first part identifies the statute of the narrative in the epistemological and methodological conflicts of human and social sciences. The second part locates the narrative within the possibilities of clinical psychology, specifically from the systemic approach. Index terms: psychologic theory, narrative, method, systemic focus, clinical psychology.

The present study explored the effects in acquisition and transference of conditional discriminations, due to the different combinations of the trained relations (identity, difference and similarity) using a second order matching to sample task. In a complementary manner, the experimental task for all the participants comprised characteristics identified in previous studies with a facilitating effective performance effect (like unspecific instructions, stimuli arrangements conformed by 3 shapes and 2 colors and a concurrent training of the relations). 8 subjects were distributed in 4 groups which varied in the combinations of the trained relations. Results showed that almost all of the participants reached the effectiveness criteria during training and extramodal and extrarelational transference tests. All the subjects showed a perfect performance with regard to the identity relation, even when this relation was not trained before. Results are discussed in terms of the effective adjusting velocity to the relations implied, and in accordance to the configurations of the task that seemed to facilitate better performances. Finally, a set of different proposed investigations are discussed, the idea is to overcome the methodological limitations of the present research and to explore possible interactions of the manipulated variables with other important factors. Index terms: second order matching to sample task, transference tests, identity, similarity and difference relations, parametric factors.

Humor is one of the most frequently used tools to persuade in advertising. Therefore, interest in studying humor's influence in the attitudes and behavior of individuals has increased. A revision of research projects regarding humor in advertising and its effects in persuation, attention, comprehension, attitudes and memory was performed as well as studies concerning humor and cultural factors, type of audience, media and type of product. A classification of humorous advertisement published in Colombia has been executed on account of bibliographical revisions and of the serialized tracking of the Semana Magazine; leading to the identification of three new categories. The proposed types of humor are: incongruity, hostile, surprise, pun, personification, phrases, allusions, comparation, rhymes, cartoons, skits and exaggeration. Index terms: advertising, humor in advertising, psychology, types of humor, attitudes.

It was studied the creativity in 115 children with the Creativity Test developed by De Zubiría, Marlés y Ramírez (2003) and it was identified both gender and age incidence in the subject's scores. In addition, it was estimated reliability and validity of this test. The results indicate that gender does not represent a significant effect over test's scores; while the age is a relevant factor in children's creativity processes. Recommendations about specificity in the age's score tables to this test are done. Index terms: creativity, cognitive development, gender differences, childhood.

This article presents a study made with 11 immigrant latin-american families in Gran Porto Alegre (Brazil); its purpose was to take account of identitary processes trough these families personal, culture, racial ethnic and national dimensions. Semi-structured interviews were made, which were analyzed through the content analysis method, from a priori categories. The results showed that theses families live non-cultural processes of cultural integration, in which they maintain their origin country customs and they adapt to the country they now live. Only one of the interviewed families presents cultural assimilitation, characterized by the loss of its origin culture. Index terms: family, migration, non-culture, identity.