O ser humano capaz de dar direção à sua vida: um estudo da obra de B. F. Skinner na década de 1970

• Autor(a) principal: Bissoli, Enzo Banti
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• 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/16698
• topic: Ser humano; Análise do comportamento; Planejamento da cultura; Autonomia; Behaviorismo radical; Human being; Behavior analysis; Culture planning; Autonomy; Radical behaviorism; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL

The objective of this work was to identify in Skinner's production, in the 1970s, subsidies that allow us to answer the following questions: What conditions can allow humans to behave in the present moment, considering the remote consequences that their behavior will produce? and How can the Behavior Analysis help humans to behave in the present moment, considering the remote consequences that their behavior will produce? B. F. Skinner's twenty-three texts, published and republished in the 1970s, were fully read and analyzed. Excerpts were selected of each text grouped into five categories of analysis. Through this categorization, it was possible to observe that, according to Skinner, humans beings are able to control themselves and act in the world, and can build environments that take the remote consequences of their behavior into account. One way humans do that is by planning a culture in which they behave under control of the effects that they will produce in the behavior of others, building environments that enable the selection of behaviors that promote the survival of members of the culture, by taking the remote consequences of their behavior into account and can increase the chances that the culture and species continue to exist in the future. It was also possible to observe that the Experimental Analysis of Behavior can contribute to this planning, due to the way by which it produces knowledge on the ways to control the behavior of human beings, building environments and analyzing the effects of environmental variables on behavior. Moreover, it also helps when intervening in these relationships of behavior control, reducing the aversive forms that due to its by-products can lead humans to come under control of increasingly immediate consequences, and planning efficient contingencies of positive reinforcement