Diferentes procedimentos para a produção da variabilidade de respostas de mando em adolescentes com o diagnóstico de autismo

• Autor(a) principal: Figueiredo, Gabrielle Maria de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/28745
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA; Autismo; Variabilidade; Mandos; Procedimentos de ensino; Autism; Variability; Mands; Teaching procedures

People diagnosed with autism disorder show difficulty in the development of social abilities and communicative abilities and exhibit repetitive motor and verbal behavior. Behavior analysts have been developing research that show that planning reinforcement contingencies help install verbal behavior with different levels of complexity and promote verbal behavior variability. The purpose of this study was to verify if different teaching procedures of mands of solicitation promote different levels of variability when the responses are being reinforced in a LAG schedule. It also evaluated if the trained responses would generalize to other items, other people and other places. Five different mand responses were taught to two 16-year-old participants: one of them went through the varied teaching procedure – all the responses were taught simultaneously – and the other participant went through the sequential teaching procedure – one response taught at a time. The LAG reinforcement schedule was used to train variable responses, because one response is only reinforced if it is different than x prior trials. We can conclude that simultaneously teaching results in a larger amount of variability than sequential teaching, and the LAG schedule was efficient in increasing the variability of mand responses for the participants. Both participants showed generalization of the manding repertoire to other situations, other people and new objects. The results of this research can help professionals and researchers to choose procedures that teach new repertoires and promote behavior variability to people with the autism diagnosis