Condições antecedentes participam de metacontingências?

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Mariana Cavalcante
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• 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/16890
• topic: Cultura; Metacontingências; Estímulo discriminativo; Microculturas de laboratório; Culture; Metacontingencies; Discriminative stimulus; Laboratory microculture´s; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL

Metacontingency is the unit of analysis at the cultural level proposed in analogy to the three-term contingency to explain social phenomena that involves the functional relation between interlocking behavioral contingencies (IBC) and its aggregate outcome and the cultural consequence. So far, experimental research has investigated the relation equivalent to the response-reinforcer in the operant contingency. In this study, the following questions were made: (1) An antecedent stimulus similar to the DS assume evocative function to IBC and their aggregate outcome in a metacontingency? (2) What are the effects of alternating two antecedent stimuli, each one correlated to a specific metacontingency? (3) Will the establishment of an analogous to discriminative stimuli control produce an analog of generalization process? Fifteen college students participated in this study, in a total of 12 generations (3 participants in each). This study had seven experimental conditions in an trial procedure. One to three participants worked simultaneously, each one in a computer: the participant of the left (PL), center (PC) and right (PR). In each trial, the computer screen of each participant, presented four numbers, independently, in each column. The participant had to enter another four in matching columns. If the sums of the numbers presented by the computers and the numbers in each column selected by the participant resulted in odd numbers, the participant earned points. This contingency was called individual contingency. Two other contingencies focused on relations between the products of the behavior of the participants, called metacontingencies. In metacontingency 1, the background color of the screen was blue (SM1) and the sum of 4 numbers entered by the participant PL was smaller than the sum of 4 numbers entered by the participant PC and this sum was smaller than the sum of 4 numbers entered by PR (ΣPL <ΣPC <ΣPR), a cultural consequence was produced: the participants received additional credits called bonus. In metacontingency 2, the screens had a red background (SM2) and the participants produced bonus if "ΣPL> ΣPC> ΣPR . These metacontingencies were presented in random order between trials. When stability criteria was reached, older participants were replaced by newer participants. Tests of stimulus control and generalization were presented at established moments. The results showed the selection of operant behavior and metacontingencies 1 and 2 and indicated that SM1 and SM2 acquired evocative function of the corresponding metacontingencies. The tests suggested that the background colors of the screen became the stimulus dimension that exerted control over the behavior of the participants and their interactions. The data are discussed in terms of an analogy between operant contingency and metacontingency