Variabilidade comportamental em humanos: uma revisão de estudos publicados em periódicos

• Autor(a) principal: Figueiredo, Gabrielle Maria de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• 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/16736
• topic: Revisão de literatura; Variabilidade comportamental; Humanos; Literature review; Behaviar variability; Humans; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL

This study aimed to characterize the literature published in scientific journals regarding behavior analysis studies about behaviaral variability with human participants. From the analysis af the references of 26 canceptual and review texts, 42 experimental articles were read in full and eight experimental articles only had abstracts available and were partially read. It was passible to identify that the majority af published articles are basic researches, followed by applied researches (there were no intervention articles found) and there isn't a featured journal for publications. Between 92 authors found only 11 published more than one article in this theme and 86% have academic affiliation. The predominant themes are variability induced by reinfarcement schedules and directly reinfarced variability, but other themes are present in publications, such as characteristics af responding and different sequences of presentatians of contingencies. The results cancerning the induced variability are inconclusive regarding the effectiveness af the schemes in producing varied respanses, while the schedÍlles that directly reinforce variability have positive results. Most articles an basic research canduct the experiments with university participants in experimental enviranments and use camputers. On the ather hand, there is a predaminance af children participants on " pplied researches, which are conducted in natural environments and use everyday objects. In both cases, the main agent of change is the experimenter himself. Measures af distributian, dispersian and recency are the most used by the experimenters to evaluate the productian af variability and, regarding the experimental design, the basic research experiments have done:m(>re graup analysis, and in applied research, more studies are dane with single-subjett designs. We faund that the researches do nat discuss the variability relating the knowledge generated by the different areas of behaviar analysis (conceptual, basic, applied and interventian), which may delay the development afthe area as a whale