Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:21:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciana Aparecida Martins Santana.pdf: 715038 bytes, checksum: 9fd17994c9761482a97629d5a7b728fa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-02-29 / The objective of this study was to investigate the verbal behavior of a person diagnosed as a chronic schizophrenic, in a mental health unit, using the principles of behavior analysis. The participant was a person male, 24 years old, single, with level of education fundamental incomplete, with low socio-economic level, retired on disability, with a history of hospitalizations in various institutions specialized in psychiatric treatment. The participant was continuous use high doses of psychiatric medication since the 19-year-old, when was the first psychotic outbreak. All the sessions were recorded on video and transcribed in full, which allowed the verbal behavior analysis of the participant and their categorization into words appropriate and inappropriate. For the control of the procedures were used two experimental design. In the design of elements multiple the verbal behavior of the participant were exposed to four differents conditions: attention (comment standardized contingent to inadequate talk), alone (the participant was in the room experimental alone), attention-no-contingent (of 30 in 30 seconds the researcher read a sentence from a list) and demand (the participant was led to perform an activity), these conditions were replicated in an reverse sequence. Subsequently, the reversion design of type ABAB, followed by follow-up was implemented. The design was started with the collection of data from the baseline I, followed for phase of intervention I, this sequence was repeated (baseline II e intervention II), and concludes with sessions of follow-up. In intervention was used differential reinforcing of alternative behavior (DRA), being made available reinforcing social for the adequate talk and extinction for the inadequate talk. The results demonstrated that the social environment strongly influenced the verbal behavior of the participant and demonstrated that the procedures of the applied behavior analysis were effective to reduce the frequency of inadequate verbal behavior and increase the frequency of verbal behaviors considered adequate. The results were discussed in terms of the methodology applied, of the behavioral principles, the effects achieved and the corroboration of the data with the literature. These studies indicate that the behavioral changes submitted by the participant were relevant. / O objetivo do presente estudo foi o de investigar o comportamento verbal de uma pessoa diagnosticada como esquizofrênica crônica, em uma unidade de saúde mental, utilizando-se dos princípios da análise do comportamento. O participante era uma pessoa do sexo masculino, com 24 anos, solteira, escolaridade fundamental incompleto, nível sócio-econômico baixo, aposentada por invalidez e com um histórico de internações em várias instituições especializadas para tratamentos psiquiátricos. O participante fazia uso contínuo de altas doses de medicação psiquiátrica desde os 19 anos de idade, quando teve o primeiro surto psicótico . Todas as sessões foram registradas em vídeo e transcritas na íntegra, o que possibilitou a análise do comportamento verbal do participante e sua categorização em falas adequadas e inadequadas. Para o controle dos procedimentos foram utilizados dois delineamentos experimentais. No delineamento de múltiplos elementos os comportamentos verbais do participante foram expostos a quatro condições distintas: atenção (comentário padronizado contingente a fala inadequada), sozinho (o participante ficava desacompanhado na sala experimental), comentário-não-contingente (de 30 em 30 segundos a pesquisadora lia uma frase de uma lista) e demanda (o participante era conduzido a executar uma atividade), estas condições foram reaplicadas numa seqüência inversa. Posteriormente, o delineamento de reversão do tipo ABAB, seguido por follow-up foi aplicado. O delineamento foi iniciado com a coleta de dados de linha de base I, seguida pela fase de intervenção I; esta seqüência foi repetida (linha de base II e intervenção II), sendo encerrado com sessões de follow-up. Nas intervenções foi utilizado reforçamento diferencial de respostas alternativas (DRA), sendo disponibilizado reforço social para as falas adequadas e retirada da atenção social para as falas inadequadas. Os resultados demonstraram que o ambiente social influenciou fortemente o comportamento verbal do participante e demonstrou que os procedimentos da análise do comportamento aplicada foram efetivos para diminuir a freqüência do comportamento verbal inadequado e aumentar a freqüência dos comportamentos verbais considerados adequados. Os resultados foram discutidos em termos da metodologia aplicada, dos princípios comportamentais, dos efeitos alcançados e da corroboração dos dados com os da literatura. Pode-se afirmar com este estudo que as modificações comportamentais apresentadas pelo participante foram relevantes.

Estudar o comportamento humano é uma tarefa desafiadora pela sua complexidade e multideterminação. Dentre as relações comportamentais complexas estão as relações verbais. A Análise do Comportamento estuda tais eventos destacando as variáveis fundamentais envolvidas, analisadas pela tríplice contingência. Uma das maiores características de uma criança com atraso no desenvolvimento é o atraso ou prejuízo em aquisição ou expansão da linguagem. Nesse sentido, estudos anteriores buscaram identificar procedimentos efetivos na aquisição e expansão de operantes verbais. Dentre os procedimentos efetivos, estão aqueles que empregam dicas. Já se sabe que a história de reforçamento com determinada dica influencia a velocidade de aquisição do operante intraverbal, outros estudos apontam a hipótese de que o tempo de permanência da dica exposta aos participantes pode influenciar na aquisição do operante intraverbal, porém, essa variável não havia sido mensurada e controlada até o momento. O objetivo do presente estudo foi comparar se o aumento no tempo de apresentação das dicas textuais e de tato tem efeito sobre o responder intraverbal. Os resultados demonstraram que para três dos cinco participantes, o tempo de permanência das dicas teve efeito no aumento da velocidade de aquisição de respostas intraverbais, já que para esses participantes, ocorreu diminuição no blocos de tentativas para atingir o critério de aprendizagem quando houve a manipulação do tempo de apresentação das dicas / Studying human behavior is a challenging task because of its complexity and multi-determination. Among complex behavioral relationships are verbal relations. Behavior Analysis studies such events prioritizing the fundamental variables involved, analyzed by the three term contingency. One of the greatest characteristics of a child with developmental disorder is the delay in language acquisition or expansion. In this sense, previous studies have sought to identify effective procedures in the acquisition and expansion of verbal operants. Among the effective procedures are those that employ prompts. It is already known that the history of reinforcement with a certain prompt influences the speed of intraverbal operant acquisition. Previous studies point to the hypothesis that the time of exposed prompts to the participants may influence intraverbal operant acquisition. However, this variable did not exist been measured and controlled so far. The objective of the present study was to compare increased time of exposed presentation of textual and tact prompt and verify effects on intraverbal responses acquisition. The results showed that for three of the five participants, the time of presentation of the prompts had an effect on the speed of acquisition of intraverbal responses, one can conclude this because there was a decrease in the blocks of attempts to reach the learning criterion when there was manipulation of the time of exposed of the prompts

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:18:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aldayza Vidigal de Marmo.pdf: 2276338 bytes, checksum: 2699db0ddb69bf6ea089adcef8a24884 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-05-09 / Behavior analysts have constantly shown interest in analyzing the knowledge produced by its own community. The applied behavior analysis has gone through some evaluations where it has been noticed the preoccupation of that community of analysts in keeping their commitment to the principles of a Radical Behaviorism proposal and in promoting socially significant behavioral changes. This study aimed at reviewing the artic1es about education published in the "Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis"ITom1968to 2000. In order to achieve this objective,it were selectedartic1esthrough the web and, after reading it's abstracts, it were developed categories of analysis inc1udingvarious aspects, such as: number of artic1es about students in regular c1assrooms by year, number of authors, academic institutions, subjects, settings, research themes, procedures and designs, and general objectives of the research. Through this analysis it could be noticed that articles on education of individuals on regular classrooms have been decreasing over the years, that researches were designed accordingly to the principles of behavior analysis,that the majority of subjects were at the primary level of education, that the most recurrent theme regards academic abilities and finally that the most common procedures were used to strength academic behaviors / Os analistas do comportamento tem constantemente demonstrados interesse em analisar o conhecimento produzido pela sua comunidade. A Análise Aplicada do comportamento já passou por algumas avaliações onde se constatou a preocupação da própria comunidade de analistas do comportamento em manter seu compromisso com os princípios de uma proposta Behaviorista Radicale em promover mudanças comportamentais socialmente significativas.Por sua vez este trabalho teve como objetivo fazer uma revisão dos artigos sobre educação publicados na revista 'Journal DfApplied Behavior Analysis' entre os anos de 1968 a 2000 Para tanto foram selecionados artigos pela internet e através da leitura de seus resumos foram formadas categorias de análises que incluíram aspectos como: número de artigos sobre estudantes em classes regulares por ano,número de autores,filiações, sujeitos, settings,temas abordados nas pesquisas, procedimentos e delineamentos utilizados, e objetivos gerais das pesquisas. A partir desta análise pode se constatar que os artigos sobre educação de indivíduos em classes regulares tem diminuído ao longo dos anos, que as pesquisas apresentam delineamentos condizentes com os princípios da análise do comportamento,que a maioria dos sujeitos investigados pertencem ao nível primário de ensino, que o tema mais abordado trata de questões relativas a habilidades acadêmicas e finalmente que os procedimentos mais utilizados tem como objetivo fortalecer comportamentos acadêmicos

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.