Efeitos de mudança de contingências sobre seleção cultural e comportamento verbal em metacontingências concorrentes

• Autor(a) principal: Correia, Guilherme Garré
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• 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/21569
• topic: Comportamento verbal; Avaliação do comportamento; Metacontingência; Verbal behavior; Behavioral assessment; Metacontingencies; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA DO ENSINO E DA APRENDIZAGEM

Experimental studies have evaluated the role of verbal behavior in cultural selection through the concept of metacontigencies, which is described as the relation between interlocking behavioral contingencies, its aggregate product and cultural consequences. The present study investigated the effects of contingencies changes over the verbal and non-verbal behavior, through a procedure with two concurrent metacontingencies programmed. In groups of three, 17 participants performed a computer task consisted in inserting numbers and communicating to each other through a messenger chat. Every 25 minutes, the most experient participant in the task was substituted by a naive participant. If the sums of the numbers inserted by each participant were ascending according to their position (Aggregate Product 1), the group would receive 100 points and another opportunity to insert numbers was presented immediately. If the sums were descending (Aggregate Product 2), the group would earn 250 points followed by and inter cycle interval (ICI), which duration varied among the experimental conditions: 30s in Condition A and 90s in Condition B. The results demonstrated stable production of PA2 in Condition A and PA1 in Condition B, which were the cultural practices that maximized the earning of points at the end of the generations. Verbal interactions between the participants were more frequent in the generations with more variability in the non-verbal behavior and occurred less frequently during the generations that showed more stability, except on the last generations of Condition A, in which there was an increase in the verbalizations not related with the experimental task, suggesting that this kind of verbalization had reinforcing effects for individual behaviors. It was observed a decreasing frequency of verbal interactions during the Condition B and the subsequent loss of cultural selection, suggesting the verbal behavior as an important variable for the selection and maintenance of cultural practices