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This study investigated whether contingent-anxious conditioned stimulus termination was more important than temporally yoked termination in producing conservation or enhancement of learned fear. Thirty psychology students, twenty-six females and four males, were administered item thirty-nine from the Fear Survey Schedule and an avoidance test. After in vivo treatment exposure to a harmless snake, post-test measures identical to pretests revealed that contingent-anxious subjects retained significantly more fear (p <.05) on both indexes than temporally yoked subjects. No enhancement was found and only on the subjective measure did contingent-anxious subjects show fear conservation when contrasted with no-treatment controls (p >.05). Implications for "implosive" therapies were discussed.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-10-25T17:03:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Maria Lisboa Cesarino de Paula.pdf: 1005253 bytes, checksum: 5368dd1d941408f029b9df78fbb61a5d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-25T17:03:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Maria Lisboa Cesarino de Paula.pdf: 1005253 bytes, checksum: 5368dd1d941408f029b9df78fbb61a5d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-04 / The present study investigated the control exerted by antecedent and consequent events on the fear responses of three women diagnosed with anxiety disorder, and aged 45-74 years. To research these events was applied the process of functional assessment by using the strategies: (a) indirect functional assessment through interview (appointment), (b) direct functional assessment through direct observation, and (c) functional analysis or functional analysis methodology. The functional analysis consisted of the manipulation environmental events, especially in four principal conditions: attention, demand, alone and control. The attention condition was subdivided in (1) to contact-attention, (2) to worryattention, and (3) to establish-attention. The data obtained with the procedures adopted in the indirect assessment by interview, as well as that ones in direct observation of participants in the natural environment provided important subsidies to the experimental framework of functional analysis, and showed complementary to it. The functional analysis results demonstrated that the fear responses occurred with high frequency in attention and demand conditions, and didn't occur in alone and control conditions. However, one class of results, sensorial stimulation occurred in high frequency in alone condition. So, it was evident the control on fear responses by the sources positive and negative reinforcement, while the sensorial stimulations were controlled by automatic reinforcement. The date obtained make evident that the investigation by functional analysis methodology demonstrated the importance of fear responses control by using sources of positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, and automatic reinforcement. The process of functional assessment applied in this study proved to be effective, once it was showed the control exerted by antecedent and consequent events on the fear responses and sensorial stimulation of the participants; than this way it is justified its application to evaluate the behavior of people diagnosed with anxiety disorder. / O presente estudo investigou o controle exercido pelos eventos antecedentes e consequentes sobre as respostas de medo de três pessoas do sexo feminino com diagnóstico de transtorno de ansiedade e idades entre 45 e 74 anos. Para pesquisar esses eventos foi usado o processo de avaliação funcional por meio das estratégias: (a) avaliação funcional indireta por entrevista, (b) avaliação funcional por observação direta e (c) análise funcional ou metodologia de análise funcional. A análise funcional constou da manipulação de eventos ambientais em quatro condições principais: atenção, demanda, sozinho e controle, sendo que a condição de atenção foi subdividida em (1) atençãocontactar, (2) atenção-preocupar e (3) atenção-constatar. Os dados obtidos com os procedimentos adotados na avaliação indireta por entrevista, bem como a observação direta dos participantes no ambiente natural, forneceram importantes subsídios para a armação experimental da análise funcional e se mostraram complementares a ela. Os resultados da análise funcional demonstraram que as respostas de medo ocorreram com alta frequência nas condições de atenção e demanda e não ocorreram nas condições sozinho e controle. No entanto uma classe de respostas, estimulação sensorial, ocorreu em alta frequência na condição sozinho. Evidenciou-se, assim, o controle das respostas de medo pelas fontes de reforçamento positivo e negativo. Já as estimulações sensoriais foram controladas pelo reforçamento automático. Os dados obtidos evidenciam que a investigação por meio da metodologia de análise funcional demonstrou a importância do controle das respostas de medo por fontes de reforçamento positivo, reforçamento negativo e reforçamento automático. O processo de avaliação funcional empregado por este estudo provou ser eficaz, uma vez que ficou evidenciado o controle exercido pelos eventos antecedentes e consequentes sobre as respostas de medo e estimulação sensorial das participantes, sendo que assim se justifica seu emprego para avaliar os comportamentos de pessoas com o diagnóstico de ansiedade.