标题：Superstitious Behavior in Multiple Schedules: a Study About Interaction Among Verbal Behavior and Behavior Maintained by Accidental Relationship with Reinforcement
出版社：Universidade Federal do Parana̧, Departamento de Psicologia
摘要：The interaction between “superstitious” behavior and verbal behavior was evaluated in threeexperiments. The participants received different instructions suggesting that responses could scorepoints. In experimental sessions, a rectangle’s color on the computer screen indicated a situation ofpoint presentarion regardless of the participant’s responses or another situation in which the pointscould not be presented (mult VT 8 s EXT). At the end of each session, participants had to describewhat 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 ofthe sessions, participants described their own behavior. The results indicate that the non-verbalperformance of the participants controlled their self-assessment and that the very contingencies ofmultiple schemes were responsible for the “superstitious” behavior, more than self-assessment orinstructions.
