College students were exposed to training designed to teach nine simple discriminations, such that sets of three arbitrary visual stimuli acquired common functions. For seven of eight participants, three 3-member contingency classes resulted. When the same stimuli were presented in a match-to-sample procedure under test conditions, four participants demonstrated equivalence-consistent responding, matching all stimuli from the same contingency class. Test performance for two participants was systematically controlled by other variables, and for a final participant was unsystematic. Exposure to a yes/no test yielded equivalence-consistent performance for one participant where the match-to-sample test had not. Implications for the treatment of equivalence as a unified, integrated phenomenon are discussed.

Orientador: Salvador Antonio M. Sandoval / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T08:40:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Costa_ElianaCeliaIsmaelda_D.pdf: 1648595 bytes, checksum: 2cc7a7835bf2a945584ee89732c08a0c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Os estudos, que têm a mulher como objeto central de discussão, cresceram muito a partir da publicação de "O Segundo Sexo", de Simone de Beauvoir, na década de 50. Este desenvolvimento trouxe fortes críticas tanto aos valores vigentes, como aos parâmetros dominantes nas ciências sociais, particularmente às explicações androcêntricas, que tratavam a mulher sob óticas naturalizante e a-histórica. Nas décadas de 80 e 90 o leque de estudos sobre a mulher se ampliou consideravelmente, com pesquisas nas áreas da história, antropologia, literatura, psicologia, educação e sociologia, sobre as diversas condições da mulher. Tanto a diversidade de interpretações possíveis, como a multiplicidade de perspectivas analíticas e de métodos de pesquisa permitiu a construção de diferentes olhares sobre as mulheres e as relações de gênero. estacando-se estudos sobre a construção da identidade de gênero, sobre o discurso social da subordinação, sobre estereótipos e preconceitos, e particularmente, sobre as formas sutis com as quais as mulheres são subjugadas e desvalorizadas. Acompanhando esta vertente de pesquisas, especificamente sob a perspectiva da psicologia social, recolocando o preconceito e o estereótipo nos processos de exclusão social, apresentamos um trabalho empírico que objetiva avaliar as formas atuais de discriminação da mulher, em seu ambiente de trabalho. Especificamente, este estudo analisa os processos de categorização, construídos por mulheres e homens, ocupantes de cargos de comando, acerca de discriminações sofridas por mulheres, em seu processo de ascensão profissional, buscando entender como se apresentam as novas formas sutis de discriminação, sofridas por mulheres em cargos de comando, praticadas nas relações de trabalho, bem como, as estratégias que desenvolvem para adquirir, ou manter-se no cargo. Para tal fim, nosso estudo empírico teve duas etapas. Na primeira, abordamos um grupo de 50 homens, que exerciam função de chefia em empresas públicas e privadas e possuíam nível superior. Na segunda etapa, entrevistamos 20 mulheres profissionais, também com nível superior, que, exerciam funções de comando em cargos proeminentes, em diversas instituições públicas e privadas. Para análise do material coletado, foram utilizados a técnica de Análise de Conteúdo e um soft de análise do discurso, o programa estatístico chamado Alceste - Analise Lexical por Contexto, que se ajusta com muita propriedade aos objetivos dessa investigação, por permitir interpretações quantitativas e qualitativas das entrevistas realizadas. Os/as participantes entrevistados/as tendem a reconhecer algum grau de discriminação em suas relações de trabalho, porém, esse reconhecimento é limitado aos aspectos objetivos do problema. As conclusões apontam para uma visão estereotipada do papel da mulher no trabalho, como se observa ao longo da análise / Abstract: Since the publication of Simone de Beauvoir' s book "The Second Sex" in the 1950's, works with woman as the central object have increased. This development has brought about strong criticisms towards society' s dominant values as well as towards the social sciences dominants parameters, particularly those linked to andocentric explanations that saw the woman from a natural and a-historical point of view. In the 1980's and 1990's, studies about woman's different conditions have increased considerably and in areas such as history, anthropology, literature, psychology, education and sociology. The diversity of possible explanations, as well as the multiplicity of analytical perspectives and research methods have allowed the construction of different views about women and gender relationships. We can point out studies on gender identity development, social discourse about subordination, stereotypes and prejudices and, specially about subtle ways that women are dominated and devaluated. Following this research perspective specially from a social psychology angle and replacing prejudice and stereotypes in the social exclusion process, we present an empirical work that aims at analyzing current forms of discrimination towards woman on the working place. Specifically, this study analyses the social categorization processes developed by women and men, who have an authority position, about the discrimination towards women in their process of professional ascension, trying to understand the configuration of the new subtle discrimination forms suffered by women in authority positions and which are performed in the working relationships. Also, it is analyzed the strategies developed by women to gain or to maintain in their professional place. In order to achieve those goals, this empirical study has had two stages. In the first one, we approached a group formed by 50 men who were head of personal departments in public or private companies and who also had a graduated title. In the second stage we interviewed 20 women who were in high hierarchical positions in several public and private institutions. To analyze those interviews, we used the Content Analysis Technique and a Discourse Analysis Software, the statistical software ALCESTE (By Context Lexical Analysis) which were appropriated to this study objectives because it allows qualitative and quantitative interpretations of the interviews / Doutorado / Educação, Sociedade, Politica e Cultura / Doutor em Educação

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This study sought to determine if there are any "cultural" or economic level patterns of behavior in responding to tasks involving categorizing pictures and recalling general knowledge. The Daberon School Headiness Device (1972), which contains subtests for general knowledge and categorization, was used to assess four groups of children: 1) lower-SES white, 2) lower-SES black, 3) middle-SES white, and 4) middle-SES black. This study involved thirty black and thirty white children between the ages of five years and five years, eleven months. All subjects were screened to determine race, age, auditory acuity, speech intelligibility, subject cooperation, and socioeconomic status (SES). Testing for intelligence was performed at the beginning of the testing situation.

A recurring theme in the cognitive development literature is the notion that people restructure their task knowledge as they develop increasingly sophisticated strategies. A large body of empirical literature spanning several domains suggests that in some cases, the process of knowledge restructuring is best characterized by a process of sequentially replacing old strategies with newer ones. In other cases, restructuring appears to be better characterized as a process involving changes in the way partial knowledge elements are selectively applied to a task. Critically, the former, but not the latter position, suggests that it may be quite difficult for people to revert to using an old strategy after restructuring has already occurred. The three experiments reported herein suggest that knowledge restructuring observed in experimental settings is aptly characterized by a process of strategy retention. Specifically, people are shown to readily revert to using an old categorization strategy even after demonstrably having restructured their knowledge, suggesting that knowledge is best conceptualized as having a heterogeneous structure. Formal modeling further supports this interpretation of the empirical results, and highlights the important role of selective attention in determining the manifest response strategy. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of an overarching mixture-of-experts framework of knowledge representation.

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