Efeitos da exposição a tarefas em condição de metacontingência sobre respostas de autocontrole ético

• Autor(a) principal: Trindade Neto, Abel Augusto
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/42162
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL; Metacontingência; Autocontrole ético; Análise do comportamento; Metacontingency; Ethical self-control; Behavior analysis

The aim of this study was to investigate whether exposure to tasks in a metacontingency could evoke self-control responses. To do so, we started by presenting the historical definitions of the metacontingency concept, a brief overview and description of procedures used in experimental research in the field, as well as a brief presentation of classical works on self-control and studies correlating self-control research in metacontingency. The fact that metacontingency procedures necessarily establish cooperation between participants as a condition for the production of aggregated products was the basis for the central question of this study: is it possible that exposure to tasks in metacontingency can evoke self-control responses on its own? To answer this question, 15 participants were selected, and an experimental procedure with an ABAB design was established. In condition A, participants were exposed to a classic selfcontrol task in isolation, while in condition B, participants were exposed to an ethical selfcontrol task in metacontingency, being together but instructed not to communicate. Each participant emitted 5 choice responses in each condition. The task was conducted using paper sheets and laminated figures provided to the participants. In condition A, the participant was instructed to choose between a circle or a square, both in white color. Choosing a square figure resulted in receiving $1 as an individual consequence (considered impulsive responses). Choosing a circular figure resulted in a school item to be distributed to a public school. In condition B, in front of the other participants, presenting a white square figure resulted in the participant receiving $1 as an individual consequence (considered impulsive responses). Meanwhile, presenting a circular figure of a different color than those chosen by the other participants could result in a school item to be distributed to a public school. The cultural consequence would only be produced if all participants chose circles of different colors from each other. Before the start of the experiment, all participants were informed about how to produce individual points and cultural consequences in each condition. It was clearly observed that the introduction of the metacontingency task evoked self-control responses; that self-control responses could be maintained by stimuli not managed by the experimenters, considering participants who continued to emit self-control responses even with the impossibility of producing the planned consequences; and that verbal behavior could affect the production of responses from group participants through various topographies, other than vocal verbal behavior, which is typically controlled in metacontingency research