Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-04-09T13:02:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Enzo Banti Bissoli.pdf: 2151691 bytes, checksum: 66e9630f1f674107c134a63fc4964f0e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-09T13:02:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Enzo Banti Bissoli.pdf: 2151691 bytes, checksum: 66e9630f1f674107c134a63fc4964f0e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research sought to provide an interface between Political Psychology and Behavior Analysis. To do so, a definition of Political Psychology and a presentation of its development regarding the areas from which it originates is proposed throughout the study. Considering that, for the emergence of Political Psychology to be feasible, besides the establishment of Psychology and Political Science as independent disciplines, it would be required discussions on the dimensions and political impacts of these sciences. Discussions have taken researchers in these areas to become interested in and suggest studies focused on Psycho-Political phenomena in broader contexts, not only regarding the scope of their disciplinary activities and their impacts on society. In a later stage, the main features of the Behavior Analysis will be presented. They would imply the possibility of an interface with Political Psychology, as well as the contributions and theoretical dialogues of James G. Holland, author of the Behavior Analysis (Holland 1971; 1974/2016; 1975a; 1975b; 1976; 1977; 1978a; 1978b; 1980, 2016), which have contributed to the discussions of the political dimensions of Behavior Analysis, as well as to the development of research interests and possibilities for the study of socio-political phenomena in this area. This paper also analyzes the productions of three Behavior Analysis journals focused on social and political issues as follows: Behaviorist for Social Action Journal, Behavior and Social Action and Behavior and Social Issues. Finally, we sought to consider characteristics of Behavior Analysis and its historic development, which allow us to support it as one of the possible approaches for Political Psychology studies / Esta pesquisa procurou estabelecer uma interface entre a Psicologia Política e a Análise do Comportamento. Para isso, ao longo do estudo foram propostas: uma definição da Psicologia Política e uma apresentação de seu desenvolvimento com relação às áreas a partir das quais se origina. Considerando que, para que fosse possível o surgimento da Psicologia Política, seria necessário, além do estabelecimento da Psicologia e da Ciência Política enquanto disciplinas independentes, as discussões das dimensões e os impactos políticos dessas ciências. Discussões que levaram pesquisadores dessas áreas a se interessarem e proporem estudos voltados a fenômenos psicopolíticos em contextos mais amplos que não só no âmbito das atividades de suas disciplinas e seus impactos na sociedade. Em momento posterior são apresentadas as característica principais da Análise do Comportamento, que implicariam na possibilidade de uma interface com a Psicologia Política, bem como as contribuições e diálogos teóricos do autor da Análise do Comportamento, James G. Holland (Holland 1971, 1974/2016, 1975a, 1975b, 1976, 1977, 1978a, 1978b, 1980, 2016), que contribuíram para as discussões das dimensões políticas da Análise do Comportamento e o desenvolvimento dos interesses e possibilidades de pesquisa para estudo de fenômenos sociopolíticos dessa área. Além disso, também são analisadas as produções de três revistas da Análise do Comportamento voltadas a questões sociais e políticas, que são: Behaviorist for Social Action Journal, Behavior Analysis and Social Action e Behavior and Social Issues. Por fim, buscou-se considerar as características da Análise do Comportamento e seu desenvolvimento histórico, que nos permite defendê-la como uma das possíveis abordagens para estudos em Psicologia Política

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-04-24T12:29:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana Johansson Siracusa.pdf: 922242 bytes, checksum: 472047c2727d0225ac0fb937f84477a4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-24T12:29:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana Johansson Siracusa.pdf: 922242 bytes, checksum: 472047c2727d0225ac0fb937f84477a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Amongst the basic concepts underlying the behavioral approach, the concept of verbal behavior is highlighted by Skinner in his book Verbal Behavior (1957). Taken into consideration that the studies about Skinner’s concept of verbal behavior have, for the most part, approached his path until the publication of Verbal Behavior, and that the studies about verbal behavior permeate throughout Skinner’s career, the present work aimed to analyze the evolution of Skinner's studies on verbal behavior after the publication of the book Verbal Behavior and pinpoint changes, complements, reiterations and possible exclusions. For that purpose, all of Skinner’s work published after 1957 containing the search words: verbal, language, mand, tact, echoic, copy, vocal, transcription, textual, intraverbal, autoclitic, audience, dictation, speaker, listener, oral, linguistics e self-management was analyzed; 282 entries from the Notebooks publication (1980) were also assessed. In all, there were 369 texts analyzed, from which 13 analytical categories were created, including the definition of verbal behavior; the definition of verbal operant; the definition and description of each one of the verbal operants: mand, echoic, textual, transcription, intraverbal and tact; the definition of audience; and four conceptual tools: discrimination and generalization, multiple causation of verbal behavior; definition and description of the autoclitic verbal operant; and self-control of verbal behavior. Complements were found in relation to the definitions of verbal behavior and verbal operants. Exclusions were found in the categories: Definition of Verbal Operant, Definition and Description of Verbal Operant Tanscription, and Definition and Description of Verbal Operant Tact. In the remaining categories, only reiterations were found. The results obtained by the present research make it possible to claim that Skinner made adjustments in the way he conceptualized verbal behavior throughout the publications investigated, in relation to what he had previously stated in his 1957 book / Dentre os conceitos básicos que dão fundamento à abordagem comportamental, destaca-se o conceito de comportamento verbal, apresentado por Skinner no livro Verbal Behavior (1957). Considerando que os estudos que analisam a obra de Skinner sobre comportamento verbal têm em grande parte abordado seu percurso até a publicação de Verbal Behavior, e que os estudos sobre comportamento verbal permeiam toda a carreira de Skinner, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo analisar a evolução dos estudos de Skinner sobre comportamento verbal após a publicação do livro Verbal Behavior e apontar alterações, complementos, reiterações e possíveis exclusões. Para isso, foram analisadas todas as publicações de Skinner após 1957, que continham as palavras de busca: verbal, language, mand, tact, echoic, copy, vocal, transcription, textual, intraverbal, autoclitic, audience, dictation, speaker, listener, oral, linguistics e self-management; e 282 entradas da publicação Notebooks (1980). Ao todo, foram 369 textos analisados, e as informações neles contidas foram classificadas em 13 categorias de análise, que incluem a definição de comportamento verbal; a definição de operante verbal; a definição e descrição de cada um dos operantes verbais: mando, ecoico, textual, transcrição, intraverbal e tato; a definição de audiência; e quatro ferramentas conceituais: discriminação e generalização, causação múltipla do comportamento verbal; definição e descrição do operante verbal autoclítico; e relações de autocontrole do comportamento verbal. Complementos foram encontrados em relação à definição de comportamento verbal e à definição de operantes verbais. Exclusões foram encontradas nas categorias Definição de Operantes Verbais, Definição e Descrição do Operante Verbal Tanscrição, e Definição e Descrição do Operante Verbal Tato. Nas demais categorias, apenas foram encontradas reiterações. Os resultados obtidos na presente pesquisa permitem afirmar que Skinner fez alterações na forma como conceituou comportamento verbal ao longo das publicações analisadas em relação ao que havia afirmado anteriormente, em seu livro de 1957

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-10-10T10:20:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 João Manoel Rodrigues Neto.pdf: 1546475 bytes, checksum: bf81cc74ba3839053637b71ec90aaf2e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-10T10:20:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 João Manoel Rodrigues Neto.pdf: 1546475 bytes, checksum: bf81cc74ba3839053637b71ec90aaf2e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-05 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The present research had as an objective analyzing the development of epistemological, ontological and methodological assumptions defended by B. F. Skinner and his proposi-tions to intervene in social questions, between 1953 and 1960. To a certain extent, we sought to continue the research of Andery (1990), in which all of the publications of Skin-ner between 1931 and 1953 were analyzed, with Science and Human Behavior as the last analyzed work. We investigated how Skinner advanced in the definition of the assump-tions of his science and the proposition of social analyzes and interventions in the first years after the publication of Science and Human Behavior. Therefore, considering the assumption of inseparability between the science of behavior proposed by Skinner and his approach to social issues, all of Skinner’s available texts, published between 1953 and 1960 after Science and Human Behavior, were identified and collected, in order to classify how much of it was changed/maintained when compared with the previous development of the skinnerian explanatory system. We analyzed the selected texts based on two groups of categories: 1. Excerpts related to the constitution of ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions of behavioral science; and 2. Excerpts related to the consti-tution of social propositions. There were additions, but no rupture, in all categories ana-lyzed when we compared our data with those of the period analyzed by Andery (1990). The results obtained in the present research allow us to sustain that Skinner improved the assumptions of his science and his social proposals, introducing new conceptual discus-sions and new data from relevant basic and applied research / A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar o desenvolvimento de pressupostos epistemológicos, ontológicos e metodológicos defendidos por B. F. Skinner e suas proposições para intervir em questões sociais, entre 1953 e 1960. Em certa medida, buscou-se dar continuidade à pesquisa de Andery (1990), na qual foram analisadas todas as publicações de Skinner entre 1931 e 1953, com Science and Human Behavior como última obra analisada. Investigou-se de que maneira Skinner avançou na definição dos pressupostos de sua ciência e na proposição de análises e intervenções sociais nos primeiros anos após a publicação de Science and Human Behavior. Para isso, considerando-se a suposição de indissociabilidade entre a ciência do comportamento proposta por Skinner e sua abordagem de questões sociais, foram identificados e coletados todos os textos disponíveis de Skinner publicados entre 1953 e 1960 após Science and Human Behavior, visando identificar o que houve de mudança/continuidade em relação ao desenvolvimento anterior do sistema explicativo skinneriano. Os textos selecionados foram analisados com base em dois grupos de categorias de análise: 1. Trechos relativos à constituição de pressupostos ontológicos, epistemológicos e metodológicos da ciência do comportamento; e 2. Trechos relativos à constituição de propostas sociais. Foram encontrados acréscimos, mas nenhuma ruptura, em relação ao período analisado por Andery (1990) em todas as categorias analisadas. Os resultados obtidos na presente pesquisa permitem afirmar que Skinner aprimorou os pressupostos de sua ciência e suas propostas sociais, introduzindo novas discussões conceituais e novos dados de pesquisa básica e aplicada relevantes para a temática

The prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems in secondary school adolescents is regarded as widely spread globally. Their effects/pitfalls are also a concern that cannot be ignored. Thus, this study dealt with this issue among adolescents, as well as with pitfalls and practices of secondary schools in Ethiopia, with particular focus on East Showa Administrative Zone of Oromiya National Regional state. Consequently, the study intended to:  examine what social competence problems (activity problems, social activities problems and academic performance problems) are experienced by secondary school adolescents of Ethiopia.  determine the relationship between sex groups and social competence problems by secondary school adolescents of Ethiopia.  examine the trends of emotional/internalising and behavioural/externalising problems among secondary school adolescents of Ethiopia.  determine the relationship displayed between sex groups and emotional/internalising and behavioural/externalising problems by secondary school adolescents of Ethiopia.  examine the relationship display between age groups and emotional/internalising and behavioural/externalising problems by secondary school adolescents of Ethiopia. To address the objectives of the study, a descriptive survey and correlational study were employed. To achieve this target, the Amharic and the Afan-Oromo versions of Achenbach’s (2001) youth self-report (YSR) were used to collect data from 714 research participants of secondary school adolescents out of 27,643 in the East Showa Administrative Zone of Oromiya Regional State-Ethiopia, from 8 secondary schools. In analysing the data, basic descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentages, percentiles and T-scores as well as ANOVA were employed. In general, the results of the study demonstrated that the prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems of Ethiopian secondary school adolescents was relatively lower (about 9%) in comparison to many other countries. Moreover, girls showed more internalising problems (11.58%) than boys (9.63%) and vice versa in externalising problems. Consequently, girls accounted for 8.6% who fell into a clinical category whereas amongst boys, 14.83% were classified into such as category. In contrary to the other findings males were scored higher than females in withdrawal/depressed subscales (4.23% and 2.74% respectively). Furthermore, statistically significant relationships between academic competences with activities, social activities, somatic complaints, social problems and externalising problems were discovered. Fulfilling and rendering appropriate guidance and counselling services in the schools comprised the first dimension of the recommendations of this work. Furthermore, establishing school based mental health services to alleviate the problems is another key point of the recommendation to assist adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems in secondary schools of Ethiopia. / Psychology / Ph.D. (Psychology)

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O objetivo foi analisar teses e dissertações que discutem o tema práticas parentais na perspectiva da Análise do Comportamento, no período de 2001 a 2015, e os descritores utilizados na busca foram “práticas parentais” e “análise do comportamento”. Práticas parentais são estratégias de socialização utilizadas pelos pais em relação ao comportamento de seus filhos. Tais práticas podem ser positivas e favorecer o desenvolvimento socioemocional de crianças e adolescentes, melhorar o desempenho acadêmico e promover habilidades sociais, ou podem ser negativas e promover problemas de comportamento e até comportamento antissocial. Entre os principais resultados, o estilo autoritativo apareceu como o estilo parental mais adequado, bem como práticas parentais como monitoria positiva e comportamento moral como as mais desejáveis ao desenvolvimento de crianças e adolescentes. Pesquisas também investigaram os resultados de treinos parentais sobre o comportamento dos filhos, que se mostraram ferramentas eficazes de mudança, tanto de comportamentos problemas quanto da qualidade da relação parental. A região sudeste foi a que mais produziu no período analisado (45,83% das produções), evidenciando a hegemonia da região na produção de conhecimento apontada pela literatura. Além disso, 41,93% das produções apresentaram fundamentação teórica da Análise do Comportamento de forma explícita, evidenciando contribuição significativa de tal aporte teórico para a compreensão do tema. Lacunas foram encontradas na produção de conhecimento presente nesta amostra, como a escassez de estudos longitudinais que abordem adolescentes e jovens adultos, bem como estudos que abordem a relação entre práticas parentais, educação e desempenho acadêmico. Concluiu-se que há potencialidade nas pesquisas neste tema para subsidiar práticas preventivas baseadas em orientação e treino de pais, práticas estas norteadas pela Análise do Comportamento, que se mostrou útil e capaz de contribuir para a problemática. Espera-se colaborar com os pesquisadores e profissionais da área. / ABSTRACT In view of the need and relevance of systematizing the production of knowledge on a given topic and, consequently, to establish a memory about such productions, this research is a state of knowledge about parental practices from the perspective of Behavior Analysis. The objective was to analyze theses and dissertations that discuss the topic parental practices from the perspective of Behavior Analysis, from 2001 to 2015, and the descriptors used in the search were "parental practices" and "behavioral analysis". Parental practices are socialization strategies used by parents in relation to their children's behavior. Such practices can be positive and favor the socio-emotional development of children and adolescents, improve academic performance and promote social skills, or may be negative and promote behavioral problems and even antisocial behavior. Among the main results, the authoritative style appeared as the most appropriate parental style, as well as parental practices such as positive monitoring and moral behavior as the most desirable to the development of children and adolescents. Researches have also investigated the results of parental training on children's behavior, which have proved to be effective tools for change in both problem behavior and the quality of the parental relationship. The southeastern region was the one that produced the most during the analyzed period (45.83% of the productions), evidencing the hegemony of the region in the production of knowledge pointed out in the literature. In addition, 41,93% of the productions presented the theoretical basis of the Analysis of Behavior explicitly, evidencing a significant contribution of such a theoretical contribution to the understanding of the theme. Gaps were found in the production of knowledge present in this sample, such as the shortage of longitudinal studies that address adolescents and young adults, as well as studies that address the relationship between parental practices, education and academic performance. It was concluded that there is potential in the research on this subject to subsidize preventive practices based on guidance and training of parents, practices guided by Behavior Analysis, which proved useful and capable of contributing to the problem. It is hoped to collaborate with the researchers and professionals.

The aim of this research is to show theoretical similarities between emotional intelligence and self-actualisation. The empirical results give evidence of the relationship between these two concepts. An assessment battery consisting of the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory (BarOn EQ-i), an emotional intelligence instrument and the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI), a self-actualisation instrument was used to measure the concepts of emotional intelligence and self-actualisation. A sample of 71 employees was assessed using psychometric tests and a biographical questionnaire. The data was collected over a period of four months. The statistical methods used in this research focus on quantitative measurement. Calculations are mainly done with t-tests and Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient. The empirical results of this research give partial evidence of the correlation between emotional intelligence and self-actualisation. Positive relationships between various factors of emotional intelligence and self-actualisation were found. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M.A.(Industrial Psychology)

Text in Afrikaans / Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Die doel van hierdie studie was om die verwantskap tussen persoonlikheidstipes en 'n salutogeniese konstruk naamlik sin vir koherensie te ondersoek. Persoonlikheid is vanuit 'n behavioristiese sowel as humanistiese paradigma ondersoek en sin vir koherensie vanuit 'n salutogeniese paradigma. Die studie is uitgevoer onder middelvlak bestuurders in 'n finansiele instelling waarvan die totale populasie in 'n gegewe geografiese gebied betrek is. Twee meetinstrumente, naamlik die lewensorientasievraelys (OLQ) en die Myers-Briggs tipe indikator (MBTI) is gebruik op die populasie van 57 bestuurders. Pearson produkmoment-korrel asiekoeffisiente is bereken en 'n variansie-ontleding is gedoen. Die resultate van hierdie studie toon dat daar nie 'n beduidende verband is tussen persoonlikheidstipes en sin vir koherensie nie. Die aanname word gemaak dat 'n verwantskap tussen die twee konstrukte moontlik gevind kan word indien 'n meer geografies verspreide en heterogene proefgroep gebruik word waarin al die persoonlikheidstipes verteenwoordig is. / The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality types a11d a salutogenic construct, namely sense of coherence. Personality has been investigated from a behaviouristic as well as a humanistic paradigm and sense of coherence from a salutogenic paradigm. This study has been done on persons on middle management level in a financial institution of which the total population has been approached in a given geographical area. Two measuring instruments, namely the Orientation To Life Questionnaire (OLQ) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) have been used on the population of 57 managers. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient has been calculated and a variation analysis has been done. The results of this study show that there is no significant relation between personality types and sense of coherence. It is supposed that a relationship between the two constructs might be found if a more heterogenic and geographically spread experimental group is used in such a way that all the personality types are represented. / Psychology / M.A. (Bedryfsielkunde)

Orientador: Roberto Gurgel Azzi / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T15:22:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Araujo_ElviraAparecidaSimoesde_D.pdf: 1410802 bytes, checksum: 3892f9cde3dcf5236d0ee5a3ce8b903a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa busca rediscutir as contribuições da Análise do Comportamento para a Educação no Brasil. Para tanto procedeu entrevistas com nove sujeitos, Psicólogos, Analistas do Comportamento, também Professores, considerados informantes qualificados, selecionados pelo banco de currículos LATTES, que atendessem aos critérios de formação e produção acadêmica, ligados ao ensino de Psicologia e/ou Educação. Foi solicitado que expressassem considerações acerca das contribuições e obstáculos da relação entre Análise do Comportamento e Educação e também acerca de sua própria atividade de ensino. Os resultados, organizados em categorias, corroboram estudos da literatura ao apontar tanto para a contribuição já demonstrada pela abordagem, quanto pelos obstáculos das incompreensões. Também é presente uma análise dos limites dos próprios analistas do comportamento em prover maior comunicação com a Educação e demonstrar com sua prática educativa a viabilidade do exercício da Análise do Comportamento no campo educacional. São apresentadas considerações críticas acerca da forma com que a abordagem é apresentada e também acerca da importância do ensino de teorias de ensino - aprendizagem para o professor, tarefa na qual o domínio dos princípios e a aplicação da Análise do Comportamento demonstra ser de grande relevância. / Abstract: This papers aims at rediscussing the contributions that Behavior Analysis has made to Education in Brazil. Interviews were carried out with nine subjects - Psychologists, Behavior Analysts, and Teachers - all of whom were considered qualified informants, selected through the LATTES curriculum bank, attending to necessary qualification and academic production criteria and related to the teaching of Psychology and/or Education. They were requested to express their views on the contributions and obstacles of the relationship between Behavior Analysis and Education, and on their own teaching practice. The results, organized into categories, corroborate the studies found in literature, pointing to the fact that some contribution is already demonstrated by the teaching approach used, but is somehow impeded by incomprehension. It also presents an analysis of the Behavior Analysts themselves, of their limitations in communicating better with the Educators and in demonstrating with their educating practice the role Behavior Analysis can play in Education. Considerations as to how the teaching approach is addressed are presented, as well as considerations emphasizing the importance of teaching teachers Teaching and Learning Theories, a task in which the mastering of the principles and applications of the Behavior Analysis are of great relevance. / Doutorado / Psicologia Educacional / Doutor em Educação

[Truncated abstract] Against a contextual backdrop of slowing growth in developed mobile service markets, the importance of youth as a growth segment, and youth's tendencies to consume mobile services hedonically, two research streams drove this dissertation. The first stream concerned extending the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to predict youth's behavioural intentions to stay loyal to mobile service providers. Drawing on selfcategorisation theory, a conceptual model extended TPB by replacing subjective norm with group norm, a social influence from behaviourally relevant peers. With the extended TPB as the theoretical framework, the second stream investigated determinants of mobile loyalty intentions. Common to both streams, a key contribution of this dissertation was how hedonic consumption moderated the relationships among mobile loyalty intentions and their determinants. The dissertation addressed five questions in the two research streams, which to the author's knowledge no published studies have explored. Using a triangulation approach to address the research questions, a qualitative survey and literature review yielded six determinants of mobile loyalty intentions. Next, a pretest led to an improved questionnaire before a large-scale survey gathered data for empirical testing. The survey took place with Singaporean youth and yielded a cleaned sample of n = 415. ... For both low and high hedonic consumptions, customer value was insignificant. This might be due to Singapore's competitive mobile service market; youth perceived little differences in value for money among competing mobile service providers. Testing alternative models offered further insights into youth's mobile loyalty intentions. Youth's mobile loyalty behaviour, operationalised as past switching, was not stochastic, suggesting that mobile loyalty intentions contained underlying determinants. Brand trust, salient in other contexts, did not apply to mobile loyalty intentions perhaps because youth perceived little risk in switching mobile service providers in developed markets. An attitude-group norm interaction also did not relate to mobile loyalty intentions, supporting TPB's construct independence and parsimony. Finally, attitude and customer satisfaction were operationally similar in that they related to mobile loyalty intentions similarly. The dissertation concluded by offering academic and managerial implications and contributions, limitations, and future research areas.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Differences in voluntary consumption of ethanol have been negatively correlated with differences in initial sensitivity and tolerance to ethanol’s pharmacological effects. From this perspective, both adolescent and adult alcohol-nonpreferring (NP) rats would be expected to be initially more sensitive to the sedative and hypothermic effects of ethanol and fail to acquire tolerance to those effects than preferring (P) rats. The first objective of this experiment was to assess alcohol-induced hypothermia and locomotor sedation in adolescent and adult P and NP rats over five consecutive daily administrations (saline, 1.5 g/kg, or 3.0 g/kg ethanol 17%v/v), testing the hypothesis that the P rats would acquire tolerance to the hypothermic response whereas the NP rats would not show changes across days. In addition, it was hypothesized that there would be age-related differences in initial sensitivity to ethanol, evident by adolescent rats displaying less ethanol-induced hypothermia and locomotor sedation than adult rats on Day 1. The second objective was to determine if conditioning was occurring between the administration environment and the hypothermic response and locomotor sedation elicited by ethanol exposure, via a sixth injection of saline. Female rats were surgically implanted with intraperitoneal Mini Mitter telemetry probes on postnatal day 25 or 85 and experimental manipulations began five days later. Data were collected every minute; temperature data were then converted to change from baseline scores and locomotor data were totaled for each session. On Day 1, maximum temperature reduction elicited by the 3.0 g/kg dose was greater in the NP rats than the P rats, regardless of age. That dose also produced greater levels of locomotor sedation in the adult rats compared to the adolescent rats, regardless of line. The 1.5 g/kg dose of ethanol produced a greater hypothermic response in adult rats compared to adolescent rats, locomotor activity was reduced equally across the groups. With repeated administrations, NP adult rats displayed sensitization to the hypothermic response elicited from the 3.0 g/kg dose; in contrast, tolerance to the hypothermic response was found within the 1.5 g/kg dose for the adolescent P, adult P, and the adult NP rats. Repeated saline administrations also resulted in tolerance to the hypothermic response associated with administration in the adult NP and adolescent P rats. On the Day 6 saline administrations, adult rats which had previously been exposed to the 3.0 g/kg dose, maintained their baseline body temperatures better than both of the other exposure groups. Adolescent rats failed to show any signs of conditioning when administered saline on Day 6. Contrary to prediction the P rats failed to acquire tolerance to the 3.0 g/kg dose for either measure; and the line difference in ethanol-induce hypothermia was due to sensitization of the hypothermic response in adult NP rats. These results also provide further support that adolescent rats are less sensitive to the initial aversive effects of ethanol at the 1.5 g/kg dose for ethanol-induced hypothermia and the 3.0 g/kg dose for locomotor activity. The current experiment provides evidence that initial sensitivity as well as the acquisition of tolerance to ethanol-induced hypothermia may be behavioral phenotypes correlated with selection for high and low alcohol drinking preference.