Cultural analysis via metacontingencies: how articulate arbitrary reinforcement, natural, immediate and long term?

• Grant number: 09/16429-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2010
• End date: December 31, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Kester Carrara
• Grantee: Vivian Bonani de Souza
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências (FC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Based on Behavior Analysis, this project will aim to review a description and analysis of the interrelationships between the concepts of arbitrary reinforcement, natural reinforcement, inmediate reinforcement and reinforcement long-term (or "backward") found in the literature, with a view to its delinemento on cultural practices, especially against the recent use of the unit's conceptual metacontingencies. since these concepts are considered fundamental in cultural planning and that remain unclear or partially-consolidated.