Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-01-10T11:30:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Caroline de Cássia Francisco Buosi Velasco.pdf: 15239082 bytes, checksum: dbd9014cc655a3601ced3782ddf14fd7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-10T11:30:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Caroline de Cássia Francisco Buosi Velasco.pdf: 15239082 bytes, checksum: dbd9014cc655a3601ced3782ddf14fd7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Inadequate educational practices may worsen the children´s development problems, and some behavior analysts have been concerned to develop interventions that aims to capacity parents and caregivers to educate their children in order to avoid or soften possible problems in this interaction. A population that deserves attention are the Welcoming Families that introduce in their own home, children who were legally departed of their biological families because they are in a social or personal risk. The present research had the objective of implement and evaluate an intervention in Welcoming Family situation for the handling of relationships among caregivers and child six to nine years old that are welcomed. Participants were five welcoming mothers and their welcomed child, divided in Experimental Group and Control. The procedure involves informative lectures cycle about Welcoming Families and a Training Program. The Training Program was realized in groups and individually. The planned delimitation had the starting evaluation (direct observation of interaction among caregiver and child; interviews and application of the Parenting Style Inventory; intervention group; evaluation after the group interventions, individual intervention, evaluation after individual orientation; removing of group and individual orientation conditions and evaluations after intervention in two different moments. The group intervention had ten meetings in which many themes were discussed. The individual intervention happened at residence and the caregiver orientation occurred in school task doing with the welcoming child. The results demonstrated that the caregivers of Experimental Group increased the positive educational practice happenings and decreased the aversive educational practices and they didn´t return to the levels gained at base line during the follow up. There was also a difference in the results of this group, after the Individual Training. The caregivers of Control Group didn´t change their interaction practices with the welcoming child. One limitation of this study was the lack of objective measures of the child in the school task performance. It is suggested new studies that verify the effectiveness of intervention with teenagers Welcoming Families, doing the adaptations that were necessary to this age / Práticas educativas inadequadas podem agravar problemas comportamentais ao longo do desenvolvimento infantil, e alguns analistas do comportamento têm se preocupado em desenvolver intervenções que visam capacitar pais e cuidadores para educar suas crianças de forma a evitar ou amenizar possíveis dificuldades nessa interação. Uma população que merece atenção são as Famílias Acolhedoras, que inserem em seu próprio lar, as crianças que foram afastadas juridicamente de suas famílias biológicas por se encontrarem em risco social ou pessoal. A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo implementar e avaliar uma intervenção em situação de Acolhimento Familiar para o manejo das relações entre cuidadores e crianças acolhidas de seis a nove anos. Os participantes foram cinco mães acolhedoras, divididas em Grupo Experimental e Controle. O procedimento envolveu ciclo de palestras informativas sobre Famílias Acolhedoras e um Programa de Capacitação. O Programa de Capacitação foi realizado em grupo e individualmente. O delineamento planejado contou com avaliação inicial dos dois Grupos (observação direta da interação entre cuidador e criança; entrevistas e aplicação do Inventário de Estilos Parentais); intervenção de grupo; avaliação após intervenção de grupo, intervenção individual, avaliação após orientação individual; retirada das condições de orientação de grupo e individual e avaliações pós-intervenção em dois momentos diferentes (dos dois Grupos). A intervenção em grupo contou com dez Encontros nos quais se discutiram diversas temáticas sobre relacionamento cuidador-criança, sob a ótica da Análise do Comportamento. A intervenção individual foi realizada na residência das famílias quando houve a orientação da cuidadora na realização de uma tarefa escolar com a criança acolhida. Os resultados demonstraram que as cuidadoras do Grupo Experimental aumentaram as ocorrências de práticas educativas positivas e diminuíram as de práticas educativas aversivas e não retornaram aos níveis obtidos na linha de base durante o follow up. Também houve diferenças importantes entre os resultados do Grupo Experimental após a Capacitação de grupo e individual. As cuidadoras do Grupo Controle não alteraram suas práticas com a criança acolhida. Uma das limitações desse estudo foi a ausência de medidas objetivas de avaliação da criança no desempenho da tarefa escolar. Sugere-se também que novos estudos verifiquem a efetividade de intervenções com Famílias Acolhedoras de adolescentes, realizando as adaptações necessárias para essa faixa etária

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-03-21T12:43:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Maciel dos Santos Souza.pdf: 1503174 bytes, checksum: d781e0be9bb5887943877b642f573a55 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-21T12:43:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Maciel dos Santos Souza.pdf: 1503174 bytes, checksum: d781e0be9bb5887943877b642f573a55 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Distance education (DE) is a teaching modality that has been standing out in the current scenario, and provides a new platform for the teaching / learning process, which requires consideration of alternative models. This study analyzed the effects of the application of a Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) on student learning in a compulsory subject of the Psychology course of a private university, offered at distance, in relation to: (a) student performance on the initial and final evaluations; assessments of unit, on the bimonthly test, substitute and final exams; (b) interaction with the opportunities offered in the course; (c) possible relationship between student performance and interaction with the opportunities offered in the course. 28 students participated in the study. In all corrections, substantive feedbacks were used. The bimonthly test had a maximum value of 7.5 points, and 15 participants scored at or above 6.0. The others had scores varying from 4.5 to 6.0. It is verified that completing the units is an important factor for a good performance in the bimonthly test, but other factors may also have affected the performance of the participants: the difficulty of the questions presented in the test and the fact that the participants had another evaluation in the same day. The regularity of the work does not seem to be a predictor of the yield in the bimonthly test. In the evaluation of the majority of the participants, the discipline, as taught, was considered better or better than the Institution's traditional distance education method. PSI applied to distance education seems to be a very effective system of teaching, given the high final grades obtained by the students who responded to the initial and final evaluations / A educação a distância (EAD) é uma modalidade de ensino que tem se destacado no cenário atual, e proporciona uma nova plataforma para o processo de ensino/aprendizagem, que requer a consideração de modelos pedagógicos alternativos. Este estudo analisou os efeitos da aplicação do Sistema Personalizado de Ensino (PSI) sobre a aprendizagem dos alunos, em uma disciplina, de caráter obrigatório, do curso de Psicologia de uma universidade privada, oferecida a distância, em relação a: (a) desempenho de participantes nas avaliações inicial e final; de unidade; nas provas bimestral e substitutiva, e no exame final; (b) interação dos participantes com as oportunidades oferecidas no curso e (c) possível relação entre o desempenho dos participantes e suas interações com as oportunidades oferecidas no curso. Foram participantes do estudo 28 estudantes. Em todas as correções realizadas foram utilizados feedbacks substantivos. A prova bimestral teve valor máximo de 7,5 pontos, e 15 participantes tiraram nota igual a ou acima de 6,0. Os demais tiveram notas que variaram de 4,5 a 6,0. Verifica-se que completar as unidades é um fator importante para um bom desempenho na prova bimestral, mas outros fatores também podem ter afetado o desempenho dos participantes: a dificuldade das questões apresentadas na prova e o fato de os participantes já terem realizado outra avaliação no mesmo dia. A regularidade do trabalho não parece ser um preditor do rendimento na prova bimestral. Na avaliação da maioria dos participantes, a disciplina, como ministrada, foi considerada melhor ou muito melhor do que o método tradicional de ensino a distância da Instituição. O PSI aplicado à educação a distância parece ser um sistema muito eficaz de ensino, dadas as altas notas finais obtidas pelos alunos que responderam às avaliações inicial e final

Orientador: Maria de Lourdes Morales Horiguela / Banca: Beatriz Bojikian Matsubara / Banca: Ivan de Melo Araújo / Banca: Paulo Sérgio Teixeira do Prado / Banca: Tânia Moron Saes Braga / Resumo: Este trabalho avalia e compara os alunos do sexto ano de medicina da Faculdade de Medicina de Marília em relação ao estágio de terapia intensiva. Para execução do trabalho, os alunos foram divididos em dois grupos, controle e experimental, e a análise dos ganhos em relação ao estágio foram feitas intra e intergrupos. Os objetivos deste trabalho são avaliar e comparar os ganhos teóricos e práticos de cada grupo antes e após o estágio de terapia intensiva, e comparar os dois grupos entre si após a inserção de treinamento em atividades práticas programadas e inseridas no grupo experimental. Usou-se um questionário fechado, aplicado aos alunos antes e apos o estágio de terapia intensiva, em ambos os grupos, para avaliar os ganhos teóricos e práticos em relação ao estágio. No grupo experimental foram inseridas atividades práticas para treinamento dessas habilidades durante o estágio de UTI. Essas atividades práticas foram escolhidas de acordo com a literatura que apontava as necessidades de formação prática para os graduandos em medicina, elaboradas e aplicadas com base no rearranjo de contingências, de acordo com a análise do comportamento, que foi o método didático usado. O treinamento dos alunos foi realizado pela pesquisadora docente especialista na área de terapia intensiva, que supervisionou o trabalho diretamente. A análise estatística recebeu tratamento especial para cada comparação e cada grupo de questões. Os dados foram descritos utilizando-se medidas de freqüência absoluta (n) quando a comparação era feita no mesmo grupo entre fases (Pré x Pós- estágio - intra-grupo) utilizando o teste de Wilcoxon para escala ordinal e o teste de McNemar quando escala nominal, e utilizou medidas relativas (%) quando a comparação foi feita entre grupos independentes (Controle x Experimental - intergrupos) usando o teste de Mann-Whitney para... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This study evaluates and compares the students of the sixth year of medicine, School of Marília Medicine, in relation to the stage of intensive care. To undertake the work, students were divides into two groups, control and experimental, and analysis of earnings in relation to the stage were made within and intergroup. The objectives of this study are assessed and compared the theoretical and practical gains of each group before and after the stage of intensive care, and compare the two groups among themselves, after the insertion of training in practical activities planned and included in the experimental group. The study was divided into two phases, first with the control group and the second phase with the experimental group. A closed questionnaire was applied to students before and after the stage of intensive care, in both groups, to assess the theoretical and practical gains on the stage. In the experimental group were included practical activities for training of these skills during the stage of ICU. These practical activities were chosen according to literature that emphasized the need for practical training for graduate students in medicine, developed and implemented based on the rearrangement of contingencies, according to the analysis of behavior, which was the teaching method used. The training of students was conducted by the researcher teacher expert in the field of intensive care, which oversaw the work directly. Statistical analysis has received special treatment compared to each and every group of issues. The data were described using the measures of absolute frequency (n) when the comparison was made between the same group stages (Pre x Post-stage - intra-group) using the Wilcoxon test for ordinal scale and McNemar test when nominal scale was used, and used measures on percent (%) when the comparison was made between independent groups... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

O objetivo deste trabalho é confrontar duas formas de tratamento para autismo muito reconhecidas na área da psicologia: a psicanálise e a análise do comportamento aplicada (ABA). O método que instrumentou a pesquisa, desde a formulação de seus objetivos, foi a Análise Institucional do Discurso, de Marlene Guirado. Foram analisados os discursos dos profissionais de cada uma das abordagens, de modo a configurar o lugar do paciente, da família e do analista. Os resultados da análise das entrevistas, corpus discursivo do estudo, foram até certo ponto surpreendentes: não se observaram apenas diferenças no modo como psicanalistas e analistas do comportamento veem a criança com autismo, a família, seu próprio trabalho e o alcance do método de tratamento, como se poderia esperar pela história de divergências teórico-técnicas e epistemológicas entre essas disciplinas do conhecimento, da pesquisa, e da prática profissional. Foram, então, traçadas aproximações e distinções entre os discursos. Tanto as analistas do comportamento quanto as psicanalistas se relacionaram com a criança e com o autismo tal como antecipados pela teoria e pelo método que suportam sua ação. Do mesmo modo, aproximam-se no que diz respeito ao lugar atribuído à criança. Distanciam-se no que diz respeito à confiança mostrada sobre o alcance de mudanças, à objetividade com que definem pontos de partida e de chegada pelos trabalhos clínicos e às certezas quanto aos resultados e à eficácia dos procedimentos terapêuticos e à inserção programada dos pais no tratamento. O estudo aponta, também, para a dimensão institucional de tais práticas de tratamento: o problema da direção e da sustentação do olhar é uma marca da cena terapêutica, e não propriamente, ou apenas, da criança. ABA e psicanálise buscam estender seus âmbitos de ação sobre o autismo, como seu objeto institucional. Nesse jogo, a criança, observada, interpretada, relatada, permanece sem lugar de enunciação / The objective of this study is to confront two forms of treatment for autism very recognized in psychology: Psychoanalysis and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). The method that instrumented the research, from formulation of their goals, was the Institutional Analysis of Discourse, Marlene Guirado. We analyzed the speeches of professionals of each approach in order to configure the place of the patient, family, and analyst. The results of the interviews, the discursive corpus of this study, were to some extent surprising: there were not only differences in how psychoanalysts and behavior analysts \"see\" the child with autism, their family, their work and the scope of the method treatment, as one might expect, considering the history of the epistemological, theoretical, and technical differences among these disciplines of knowledge, research, and professional practices. Were then traced the similarities and distinctions between speeches. Both behavior analysts as the psychoanalysts were related to the child and autism with an \"anticipated\" image given by the theory and the method that support its action. Similarly, they approximate in respect to the place assigned to the child. They distance, as to the certainty of outcomes and efficacy of therapeutic procedures; certainties regarding the planned inclusion of parents in treatment, trust shown on the scope of changes and in the objectivity with which they define points of departure and arrival for clinical work. The study also points to the institutional dimension of such treatment: the problem of gaze direction and support is a trademark of therapeutic scene and, not exactly, or only, child. ABA and Psychoanalysis seek to extend their spheres of action on autism, as their institutional object. In this game, the child, observed, interpreted, reported, there remains with no place of enunciation

O ensino de mando por informação vem sendo objeto de muitos estudos na análise aplicada do comportamernto. Diferentes delineamentos experimentais já foram propostos, porém somente o estudo de Shillngsburg. et al (2014) alterna sessões em que há a condição para que o mando por informação seja emitido com sessões em que não há a condição para que o mando por informação seja emitido. No estudo foram ensinados os mandos por informação Qual ? e Quem ? para três crianças com diagnóstico de autismo, em ambientes experimentais distintos. O presente estudo constou de três experimentos : uma replicação direta do estudo mencionado acima com o objetivo de verificar se os dados são replicáveis. Um experimento 2, em que houve uma replicação sistemática do estudo em questão : manteve um mesmo ambiente experimental para o ensino das diferentes condições, com o objetivo de verificar se as variáveis do ambiente como o mesmo número de pessoas e objetos na sala, nas diferentes condições, influenciaram na aquisição do repertório. E um experimento 3, em que os participantes foram expostos a tentativas randomizadas para verificar se havia controle discriminativo exercido por um procedimento de discriminação sucessiva para a escolha por qual pergunta realizar : Qual ou Quem. No Experimento 1 os participantes atingiram critério na replicação direta, demonstrando que o estudo replicado possui generalidade. O Experimento 2 conclui que o controle exercido no estudo de Shillngsburg, et al. (2014) realmente se deu por meio das operações estabelecedoras para mando Qual e Quem e não por variáveis discriminativas do ambiente. E o Experimento 3 conclui que a ausência da informação necessária para acessar o item de preferência se constitui na OE que controlará a resposta de perguntar, porem que não exerce controle sobre qual pergunta realizar Qual ou Quem, demonstrando haver um controle discriminativo para a escolha da pergunta a ser realizada / The acquisition of mands for information and how to teach them has been a target of many applied behavior analysis studies. Varied experimental designs have been proponed, but only Shillngsburgs study (Shillngsburg et al, 2014) alternates between sessions in which there is a requirement for mand for information emission and sessions without such requirements. In the study mands for information using who? and which? were taught for three children, diagnosed with autism, on three different experimental environments. This present study holds three experiments: First one is a direct replication of Shillngsburg et al (2014) in order to verify if the data is replicable. Second is a systematic replication of the original study, that maintained the same experimental environment while teaching both conditions (who and which), in order to check if environment variables (same amount of people and objects in the room) influenced repertoire acquisition. On the third experiment participants were exposed to randomized trials in the same session, while the original study alternated sessions with each condition. The last experiment checked if discriminative control was established for responding either who or which. The first experiment shows the same results from Shillngsburg Et al (2014): all participants learned both types of mand.. Experiment 2 concludes that the control exerted on Shillngsburg, Bowen, Valentino & Pierce (2014) study for mands who and which was actually due to the establishing operations, and not other environmental variables. Experiment 3 concludes that the lack of information needed in order to access a reinforcer item constitutes itself as an establishing operation, which will control the asking response, but not on which question to make (who or which). This results also shows the existence of a discriminative control present, that will be responsible for which question is asked

A análise do comportamento tem tido sucesso no ensino de comportamento verbal de ouvinte e falante para o público autista. Parte dos resultados positivos que têm sido obtidos são atribuídos ao efeito do reforçamento das respostas corretas treinadas. Porém, é importante também a investigação dos efeitos das consequências que se dão às respostas incorretas. Uma das consequências que pode ser prevista é a correção de erro. Alguns estudos têm sido feitos nesse tema, sendo que alguns tratam da topografia com que se fornece a essa correção e outros tratam do esquema de reforçamento que se pode dar após a resposta comparada ao reforçamento dado a respostas corretas independentes. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi comparar uma condição que fornecia reforçadores de mesma magnitude para respostas corrigidas e independentes com uma segunda condição que fornecia reforçadores de diferentes magnitudes para estes dois tipos de respostas. Foram medidas as taxas de respostas corretas no ensino de tato e discriminação auditivo-visual para três crianças com desenvolvimento atípico. No ensino das respostas de tato, todos os participantes obtiveram melhores resultados na condição de diferentes magnitudes. Para respostas de discriminação auditivo-visual, dois participantes obtiveram melhores resultados com a condição de diferentes magnitudes e um obteve melhores resultados com mesma magnitude / Behavior analysis has been successful in teaching verbal behavior listener and speaker responses to the autistics children. Part of the positive results that have been obtained are attributed to the reinforcing effect of the correct trained response. However, it is also important to investigate the effects of the consequences of incorrect responses. One of the consequences that can be predicted is the error correction procedure. Some studies have been done on this theme, some of wich deal with the topography that is provided to this correction and others deal with the reinforcement scheme that can be given after the correct or incorrect responses. The objective of the present study was to compare a condition that provided reinforcers of the same magnitude for corrected and independent responses with a second condition that provided reinforcers of different magnitudes for these two types of responses. The rates of correct responses in the teaching of listen responses and tact were measured for three children with autism. In the teaching of tact responses, all the participants obtained better results in the participants obtained better results in the condition of different magnitudes. For listen responses, two participants obtained better results with the condition of different magnitudes and one obtained better results with the same magnitudes

The relations between faculty religiosity, changes in reliaious beliefs, and commitment to scholarly openness were examined through a survey of 257 faculty at three universities. A new measure of scholarly openness was developed for this study because of ambiguities in previous indirect and attitudinal measures. Patterns of faculty religiosity as a function of education, graduate school prestige, academic discipline, and educational period of religious change are generally compatible with previous studies, but patterns for scholarly openness are not. Faculty religiosity and scholarly openness were negatively correlated for those Faculty who had never experienced sinnificant reliaious change and for those who had changed from one religon to another, congruent with the hypothesis that religious faith and scholarly openness are incompatible, but the correlations were not strong. However, the two dimensions were uncorrelated for faculty who had changed in either more religious or less religious directions. Six factors contributing to religious change were identified by principle components analysis from responses to 31 reasons for change presented in Likert format and from scores assigned to faculty self-descriptions. Correlations between factor scores and scholarly openness suggest that the process of personal interaction concerning religious beliefs may be particularly significant in nullifying the antithetical relationship between religious faith and scholarly openness.

Accurate and objective performance appraisals are absolutely necessary due to their utility in important personnel decisions such as promotion, demotion and training. This study examines the contaminating effects of sex bias on performance evaluations and it's relationship to the sex-stereotype of the job and levels of performance. Unlike previous studies, this study not only examines these effects at the extremes of performance, but at average levels as well. Also, unlike previous studies, the subjects empirically determined the sex-typed nature of the jobs and the levels of performance within those jobs rather than the experimenter having made a priori decisions. Hypothetical employees in male, neutral, and female sex-typed jobs who performed at high, average, and low levels were rated on four performance dimensions and one overall performance dimension. There were no main effects for either the sex of the rater or the sex of the ratee. There was, however, an interaction between the level of performance and the sex-type of the job that was significant on four of the five dimensions. Possible explanations are developed within an Equity Theory framework for the findings.

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often do not use their leisure time appropriately. Previous studies have shown that children with ASD tend to engage in inappropriate actions and maladaptive behaviors (such as engaging in stereotypy and tantrums) that decrease their quality of life. Establishing age-appropriate leisure skills is important for these children as these skills have been recognized as fulfilling habilitative needs, and can increase the quality of life and social acceptance and decrease the amount of stress for these individuals. The present study used a multiple baseline across-participants design to investigate whether children with ASD can learn and maintain the skill of photography. Eight children (5 boys and 3 girls, ages 5-16) with ASD were taught using behavioral skills training to engage in an appropriate leisure skill–taking pictures. When mastery criterion was met during training (participants were able to take two consecutive pictures following the six operationally defined steps), participants completed a follow-up three weeks later to examine whether they were able to maintain the skill. Six out of the eight participants were able to successfully learn how to take pictures. This study furthers the current literature on teaching leisure skills to children with ASD and future studies can focus on expanding appropriate leisure skills that are taught to children with ASD, as well as measuring the effects (i.e. social, therapeutic) of learning photography, in addition to other leisure skills.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching self-instructional skills to navigate to a mobile device to access video prompts to teach novel behaviors to two adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a vocational setting. This study used a multiple probe across conditions design to evaluate effectiveness. In baseline, the researcher directed the participants to complete a novel task and collected data on correct steps completed. In technology training the researcher used a system of least prompts procedure to teach participants to initiate the use of the mobile device, navigate to an app, navigate to the specific behavior schedule, watch video prompt, navigate to the next step, and complete the modeled behaviors. After mastery of technology training, researcher evaluated performance of novel tasks following self-instruction to access video prompts on the mobile device. Participant’s fidelity of navigation skills was assessed, however was not included in mastery criterion. Both participants learned to self-instruct to independently access video prompts on a mobile device. One participant self-instructed using the mobile device and video prompts to correctly complete novel tasks.