Effects of competition contingencies in children's self-report on their performances in a computerized game

• Grant number: 18/06493-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2018
• End date: December 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Experimental Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Mariéle de Cássia Diniz Cortez
• Grantee: Rafael Hideki Hanazumi Mazzoca
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/50909-8 - INCT 2014: Behavior, Cognition and Teaching (INCT-ECCE): relational learning and symbolic functioning, AP.TEM

Abstract

Studies in the area of verbal/ nonverbal correspondence have been investigating environmental aspects that may have an influence on the emission of corresponding or non-corresponding reports to the stimuli that precede them. The present study aims to verify how competition contingencies, when the participant is at an advantage or disadvantage compared to a virtual opponent, influence the accuracy of children´s self-report on their performances in a computerized game. Six participants will be exposed to a computerized target shooting game. "Doing" will consist in shooting targets, and "saying" will consist in clicking on a green square for hits or a red square for misses, following the performance feedback (serving as a self-report measure about their own performance). Baseline sessions will evaluate participants' self-report accuracy on their performances on the game, in the absence of planned competition contingencies. In the next phase, the Competition-Advantage Contingency will be present in order to reevaluate the influence of competition contingencies in which the participant is at an advantage compared to his opponent, both in the self-report accuracy after each trial and in the final report on the total points obtained in the session. Next, the Competition-Disadvantage Contingency condition will be presented in order to verify the influence of competition contingencies when the participant is at a disadvantage compared to his opponent. Finally, a correspondence training will be conducted in order to produce correspondent reports to the participants who come to present a decrease in the self-report accuracy due to the manipulation of the variables of the present study. The results will be analyzed considering the percentage of corresponding reports of misses and hits during the execution of the task, and also considering the number of corresponding reports about the total points obtained through the different experimental conditions. (AU)

Scientific publications

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CORTEZ, MARIELE DINIZ; MAZZOCA, RAFAEL H.; DONARIS, DOUGLAS FERNANDES; OLIVEIRA, RICARDO P.; MIGUEL, CAIO F.. Audience Control over Children's Honest Reports. ANALYSIS OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR, v. 38, n. 2, p. 18-pg., 2022-06-14. (18/06493-2, 14/50909-8)