espanolLa conducta intencional humana, o conducta motivada, ha sido interpretada desde diferentes modelos psicologicos desde perspectivas que han puesto el acento en factores endogenos (la introspeccion, el lenguaje privado) o exogenos (el ambiente, el lenguaje publico). Desde el modelo cognitivo, en sus ultimas aproximaciones epistemologicas, se ha profundizado en un analisis que busca superar las limitaciones empiricas de los enfoques clasicos. La perspectiva corporea y afectiva ha demostrado ser en principio en abordaje mas coherente y parsimonioso para poder entender la realidad de la intencion humana. EnglishIntentional human behavior, or motivated behavior, has been interpreted from different psychological models from perspectives that have emphasized endogenous (introspection, private language) or exogenous (the environment, public language) factors. From the cognitive model, in its latest epistemological approaches, it has delved into an analysis that seeks to overcome the empirical limitations of the classical approaches. The corporeal and affective perspective has shown to be in principle in a more coherent and parsimonious approach to be able to understand the reality of human intention.