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    Lara Tapia, Luis Born Tenancingo, Estate of Mexico (Mexico), 3 March 1930 Died Mexico City, 20 November 2000 Georgina Lozano Razo 1% | Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico Section editor Josué Tinoco 7 2 Psicologia Social, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico Keywords Mexico Analysis Experimental Behavior Back when Luis Lara Tapia was a high schooler, he got interested in the study of dreams, which led him to read Freud’s dream interpretation work. He decided to do his bachelor’s degree at the Facultad de Filosofia y Letras de la Universidad Nacional Auténoma de México (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at National Autonomous University of Mexico) (UNAM), on History, which he studied at the Casa de los Mascarones (The House of Masks), colonial building located on the avenue Ribera de San Cosme, in the Santa Maria la Ribera neighborhood, Mexico City, since between 1953 and 1954, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters stayed in that building before being transferred to University City (Gonzalez, 2012). Afterward, he got in the Facultad de Medicina (Faculty of Medicine) (UNAM). His interest for both sociocultural psychology and social anthropology once again led him to the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters to study psychology; his medical training provided him with a scientific orientation, so when faced with the psychological practice of those times, he was impressed with the subjectivity mental health professionals had when making their diagnosis; it was then that his interest in psychology focused on psychometrics, since he considered it to be a more objective form of diagnosis. As a psychology student he faced a merely academic psychology in which psychoanalysis was predominant. During 1957 he embarked in a movement via the Congreso de Estudiantes de Psicologia Latinoamericano (Congress of Latin American Psychology Students in Mexico), where 13 countries from Latin America took part; in this event the need for a professional and independent psychology was stated for the first time, because up until that moment, they were under control by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, in words from Luis Lara Tapia, psychology back in the moment was a “subprofession” (Carrascoza, 2003a, 2003b). In 1960, after concluding his abroad studies, Luis Lara Tapia comes back to Mexico and integrates as a professor in the then known as Escuela Nacional de Psicologia (National School of Psychology) (ENP) from the UNAM; he was one of four professors who had psychology formation; the rest of the teachers were doctors, philosophers, and educators, which repercuted on student’s formation. During that same year, he was a promoter of the Project Pedregal, which consisted in students having classes aside from the official curriculum, a an alternative to the completely psychoanalytical content in the plan of studies. Besides, in the period between 1960 and 1965, he made various trips to the University of Texas and brought students to the Institute of Human Development in Kansas; this allowed them to be in contact with experimental psychology (Carrascoza, 2003b). In 1964, alongside Rogelio Diaz-Guerrero (1918-2004), he conducted an investigation with 23 students from several generations. This research included the study of personality development in two cultures, so it was also done in the USA, allowing a comparison with Mexico (Carrascoza, 2003a). Being a teacher and with Héctor Manuel Cappello Garcia (1935), he was given the task of changing the curriculum of the career; it was in 1970 that he began that work, so, in 1971 the new Plan of Studies of the College of Psychology came into force, and it continued to be in force for more than 30 years; this new curriculum allowed him to be head of the Department of Experimental General Psychology and Design; this department would control 24 of the 30 mandatory subjects and 27 optional subjects (Escobar, 2016; Herrera, 2000; Millan, 1982). At the same time and with the aim of increasing the number of psychologist teachers, Luis Lara promoted that students from the ENP started giving classes to peers from lower years. Luis Lara Tapia also got into the task of promoting student scholarships, both national and international, promoting a book translation program, which allowed expanding the existing bibliographic collection (Herrera, 2000). Thanks to his medical training, abroad studies, and constant search to establish a scientific psychology, Luis Lara Tapia along with his contemporaries Héctor Cappello and Serafin Joel Mercado Doménech (1939-2017) played an important role in the development of the behavioral analysis in Mexico by supporting the study of behavior (Millan, 1982). Proof of this is the fact that during 1972, he made arrangements to acquire research equipment for operant conditioning from the company TechServ (Ribes, 2016). On February 27 of 1973 when the rector of the UNAM was Pablo Gonzalez Casanova (1970-1972), Luis Lara Tapia was named founding director of the Facultad de Psicologia (Faculty of Psychology) (FP), a position he would hold for 4 years (1973-1977). Once he assumed the direction of the FP and thanks to the acquisition of the TechServ equipment, for the first time in Mexico, research and experimental publications on animal behavior were carried out. From 1974 to 1975, he supported the creation of the first teaching laboratories (20 or 30 boxes of operant conditioning and bioterio of rats). As director, Luis Lara Tapia achieved that at the end of 1973, the Direccién General de Profesiones de la Secretaria de Educacién Publica (General Directorate of Professions of the Ministry of Public Education) issued professional certificates of psychologists to those who obtained the professional title (Herrera, 2000; Ribes, 2016). During the period when he directed the FP, he founded the Coordination of Open University of the FP and structured the first Technical Council (Amador, 2012). Luis Lara Tapia was founder of the Escuelas Nacionales de Estudios Profesionales (National Schools of Professional Studies) (ENEP) Iztacala and Zaragoza, as well as the psychology career at the Xochimilco and Iztapalapa schools of the Universidad Auténoma Metropolitana (Metropolitan Autonomous University) (UAM) (Herrera, 2000). Similarly, in 1973, he named Emilio Ribes Testa (1944) responsible for reorganizing the postgraduate

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