标题：Comportamento supersticioso em esquemas múltiplos: estudo sobre a interação do comportamento verbal com o comportamento mantido por relação acidental com reforço
出版社：Universidade Federal do Parana̧, Departamento de Psicologia
摘要：The interaction between “superstitious” behavior and verbal behavior was evaluated in three experiments. The participants received different instructions suggesting that responses could score points. In experimental sessions, a rectangle’s color on the computer screen indicated a situation of point presentarion regardless of the participant’s responses or another situation in which the points could not be presented (mult VT 8 s EXT). At the end of each session, participants had to describe what they were doing. In three experiments, only a few participants developed “superstitious” behavior, regardless of the kind of instruction presented at the beginning of the session. At the end of the sessions, participants described their own behavior. The results indicate that the non verbal performance of the participants controlled their self-assessment and that the very contingencies of multiple schemes were responsible for the “superstitious” behavior, more than self-assessment or instructions. Keywords: " superstitious" behavior; contiguity; instructions; verbal behavior.
