Análogos experimentais de metacontingências: efeitos da alteração da contingência para contiguidade do evento cultural sobre práticas culturais

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Lobato, Luciano Ernesto
• Orientador(a): Gioia, Paula Suzana
• 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: Análise do comportamento; Cultura; Superstição; Metacontingência; Contiguidade
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Behavior analysis; Culture; Superstition; Metacontingency; Contiguity
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA EXPERIMENTAL
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/16711

The research aimed to verify whether interlocked behavioral contingencies (IBCs) established in contingency conditions between aggregate output and cultural consequence remains when the subsequent cultural event turns to have a relation of mere contiguity with the aggregate output. One experiment was conducted with ABAC design (Contingency I, Contiguity I, Contingency II, Contiguity II), in which a group of 3 participants played a computer game. 25 subjects participated in the experiment, a total of 23 generations (3 participants in each). Participants earned points if they had entered numbers whose sum to the numbers presented by the computer program resulted in odd numbers. The group earned food to be donated to a charity institution, if the sum of the participant's left was less than or equal to the sum of the participant's center and this was less than or equal to the sum of the participant's right in Contingency s phases (Contingency I and Contingency II), or 50% and 70% (phases Contiguity I and Contiguity II, respectively) of the cycles after any aggregate product. The results showed the selection of operant behavior in all phases and the selection by metacontingencies of different interlocked behavioral contingencies (IBCs) that generated aggregate output required for the production of cultural consequence in phases Contingency I and Contingency II. In phases Contiguity I and Contiguity II, these IBCs selected in the previous phase were maintained for a few generations, but at lower frequency, and giving rise to other interlocked behavioral contingencies that were possibly selected "accidentally" by subsequent cultural events