Análogos experimentais de metacontingências: efeitos da intermitência da conseqüência cultural

• Autor(a) principal: Amorim, Virgínia Cordeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/16884
• topic: Metacontingência; Contingências comportamentais entrelaçadas; Conseqüência cultural; Microculturas de laboratório; Metacontingency; Interlocking behavioral contingencies; Cultural consequence; Laboratory microcultures; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL

Operant behavior (either social or not) depends upon reinforcement, but it is known that not all instances produce reinforcement. Assuming that cultural consequences are analogous to operant consequences in metacontingencies selection, the purpose of the present study was to answer the following question: what are the effects of the intermittence of cultural consequences on the production of IBCs and their aggregate outcomes ? Three studies were conducted in which undergraduate students distributed in generations of three participants were exposed to a trial procedure. Three participants worked simultaneously, and each was generally called PE, PC and PD. These participants were replaced, one at a time, by successive generations. At each trial 4 numbers were presented to each participant in their own computer screen by software; the numbers were distributed in 4 columns. The task of each participant was to write in 4 columns below each number presented in the screen. Two experimental contingencies were operative: a) individual consequences points - were contingent on 4 odd sums of the numbers presented by the computer and the numbers entered by the participants individually; and b) cultural consequence bonus were contingent on the aggregate outcome (PLE ≤ PLC ≤ PLD): if the sum of the 4 numbers entered by PE was smaller or equal to the sum of the 4 numbers entered by PC, which was smaller or equal to the sum of the 4 numbers entered by PD. The contingencies for the production of individual consequences remained the same in all experiments. In Experiment 1 there were 11 participants distributed in 9 generations and it was verified the effects of the intermittency of the cultural consequence production on the production of IBCs and their aggregate outcomes , after the aggregate product was selected. It was verified that the production of IBCs and its aggregate outcomes was altered after the introduction of the intermittent schedule but this effect was transitory. There were 12 participants over 7 generations in Experiment 2. The experiment s aim was to evaluate the effects of the presentation of cultural consequence intermittently on the production of IBCs and their aggregate outcomes , after the aggregate product was selected. Results showed that the introduction of the intermittency did not immediately affect the production if IBCs and their aggregate outcomes . Experiment 3 had 12 participants and 10 generations. Its aim was to verify the effects of the intermittent production of cultural consequence on the selection of IBCs and its aggregate outcomes . Results showed, once again, that an intermittent cultural consequence is enough to select IBCs and their aggregate outcomes . In general, results showed that 1) cultural consequences produced or presented intermittently are enough to maintain IBCs and their aggregate outcomes , and 2) cultural consequences intermittently produced select IBCs and its aggregate outcomes