Procedimento para ensinar respostas de mando e promover variação na topografia destas respostas em crianças autistas

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Guimarães, Mariana Chernicharo
• Orientador(a): Micheletto, Nilza
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Psicologia Experimental: Análise do Comportamento
• Departamento: Psicologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Autismo; Mando; Variabilidade; Generalização
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Autism; Manding; Variability; Generalization
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/16616

The present study investigated if it was possible to a) teach manding topographies of asking through the procedure of fading out the verbal model; b) verify if generalization of the mands installed occurs to objects which were not directly taught; and c) verify if a progressive reinforcement schedule LAG (Lag 1, Lag 2 and Lag 3), in which the participant must emit n different responses from previous ones to produce reinforcement, produces varied responses. In a multiple baseline design, five manding topographies of asking were taught to one participant and four topographies to another. The teaching procedure of these mands consisted in the presentation of the objects, the objects were previously selected by a preference assessment, to the participant and first install ecoic asking responses, such as can I get I want give it to me can I borrow and can I play . Next, the experimenter faded out the verbal model until the response was emitted under control of the object presentation in the absence of the verbal model. During the teaching sessions some generalizations tests were conducted, in which new objects were presented and the participants should emit mands with these new objects. After the teaching sessions the procedure to produce varied manding responses started, with the Lag 1, Lag 2 and Lag 3 reinforcement schedule. The results indicate that it was possible to teach the asking topographies to both participants, the number of responses emitted in the absence of a verbal model increased during procedure, the ecoic responses decreased and other fading levels were used throughout the teaching procedure. Beside that, variability was produced by the reinforcement schedule Lag 1, Lag 2 and Lag 3, one participant when the Lag increases the number of topographies emitted increases also and the other participant there is a bigger diversity of topographies which biggest distribution of responses in the biggest LAG S value. Some new (not taught responses) and recombined (partially taught responses) responses occurred and those increased with the amplified Lag. The generalization of taught topographies occurred to new objects presented to participants