Dimensões quantitativas da variação e seleção de contingências comportamentais entrelaçadas em metacontingências de microculturas experimentais

• Autor(a) principal: Woelz, Thomas Anatol da Rocha
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• 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/16760
• topic: Metacontingências; Contingências comportamentais; Comportamento social e cultura; Behavioral contingencies; Metacontingencies; Social behavior and culture; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL

This dissertation analyzed results from research on cultural selection by metacontingencies. The concept of metacontingencies refers to functional relations that describe selection processes on behavioral relations that are broader than individual operant behavior. These behavioral relations are interlocked behavioral contingencies that may produce aggregate products and cultural consequences based on those products. The experimental research on metacontingencies accumulated a series of investigations that have successfully produced some processes of cultural selection in a simplified environment. An attempt in relating and integrating the results from all these investigations seems to be an important task. The research selected for analysis in the dissertation were the investigations of laboratory microculture metacontingencies, involving a procedure with a separation of individual and cultural consequences, named Meta . The research publications done with that procedure were selected, including the data generated by the research software. The experiments were then categorized on each manipulation made and microculture produced. The results of those investigations were then analyzed, in an attempt of finding evidences of cultural variation or selection processes. In general, the analyzed studies were coherent with each other and demonstrated the lawfulness of cultural selection processes in many variations of metacontingency manipulations. Finally, some directions for the investigation of metacontingencies in laboratory microcultures were discussed, with some suggestions for changes in current procedures