Evaluation of different training parameters in the transfer of meaning between equivalent stimuli

• Grant number: 12/21425-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: March 01, 2013
• End date: February 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Experimental Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Júlio César Coelho de Rose
• Grantee: Mariéle de Cássia Diniz Cortez
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Procedures to assess to what extent symbols acquire their "referents" functions allow identifying relevant variables in the acquisition of symbolic behavior. This study will address the effects of different training parameters in the transfer of meaning among equivalent stimuli in undergraduate students. Study 1 will verify whether amount of training (regular training or overtraining) and topography of response (using mouse or keyboard), in combination, would influence differentially in the degree of transfer of function among equivalent stimuli for four experimental groups and one control group. Study 2 will investigate the effects of different types of meaningful stimuli in the transfer of function (faces expressing emotions for one group and words semantically related for another group). In both studies, participants in the experimental group will be exposed to a training of conditional discrimination (AB, AC, CD e DE) among meaningful stimuli and abstract stimuli and to tests of the BE and DB relations. Those who established equivalent classes will evaluate, using a semantic differential device, the abstract stimuli from set D. Results from this assessment will be compared to the assessment of the faces/words carried out by the control groups that will not be exposed to the training of conditional discrimination. The comparison between the values attributed to the faces/words by the control group e to the abstract stimuli by the experimental group will allow identify, quantitatively, the effects of the different parameters manipulated in the transfer of meaning among equivalent.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SILVEIRA, MARCELO VITOR; AGGIO, NATALIA MARIA; CORTEZ, MARIELE DINIZ; BORTOLOTI, RENATO; RICO, VIVIANE VERDU; DE ROSE, JULIO C.. Maintenance of Equivalence Classes and Transfer of Functions: The Role of the Nature of Stimuli. PSYCHOLOGICAL RECORD, v. 66, n. 1, p. 65-74, MAR 2016. (10/08399-1, 11/12847-2, 12/21425-7)

DE ALMEIDA, JOAO H.; CORTEZ, MARIELE DINIZ; DE ROSE, JULIO C.. The Effects of Monitoring on Children's Rule-Following in a Computerized Procedure. ANALYSIS OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR, v. 36, n. 2, SEP 2020. (12/21425-7, 08/57705-8, 14/50909-8, 14/01874-7)