Microculturas em laboratório: construção de complexidade e seleção por metacontingências

• Autor(a) principal: Queiroz, Anna Beatriz Müller
• 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/16748
• topic: Metacontingências; Práticas culturais; Complexidade de componentes; Complexidade ambiental; Metacontingencies; Cultural practices; Component complexity; Environmental complexity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL

The selection of cultural units by metacontingencies was manipulated in laboratory microcultures in an effort to build and study cultural complexity. The following experimental manipulations were conducted: (a) increasing and decreasing the number of IBCs participants (component complexity and complexity of the task), (b) the complexity of the selected aggregate product of group interaction (environmental complexity) (c) the environmental criteria (for cultural consequences). Five experiments were conducted with university students distributed among generations of 2 to 4 participants. Throughout the experiments experienced participants were replaced with naive ones. The task of each participant was to insert numbers from 0 to 9 in the computer. Consequences were contingent with specific patterns of selection: individual consequences were contingent with individual patterns, and cultural consequences were contingent with products of interactions and organization among the participants (called Aggregate Products, or AP). The experiments comprised 4 phases: (1) selection of AP1, (2) selection of AP2, (3) selection of two previously produced APs, and (4) extinction. The order in which the phases were presented varied between Experiment 1 and 2. Experiments 3 and 4 systematically replicated Experiments 1 and 2, respectively, with variation (decrease) in the number of participants performing the task in phase 3. Experiment 5 replicated Experiment 2 without instructions specifically related to the expected performances. Results showed that the order of phases, did not affect the production of the required AP, but determined the AP produced when either one was possible. Results also indicated that selection by metacontingencies involve the repeated production of the aggregate product, and patterns of interaction or organization. Results also showed that the increase and decrease of participants may both be related to the production of complexity depending on other variables. A discussion of the dimensions of environmental and components complexity studied in the selection of cultural units by metacontingências is presented