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| Author(s): |
William Ferreira Perez
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2008-12-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Gerson Aparecido Yukio Tomanari;
Julio Cesar Coelho de Rose;
Deisy das Gracas de Souza
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| Advisor: | Gerson Aparecido Yukio Tomanari |
| Abstract | |
The operant analysis of eye movements has been taken as an auxiliary measure in the study of stimulus control. Other researches have already shown that different stimulus control topographies (SCT) are correlated with different patterns of eye movements. The present study used an equipment to track the eye movements of four participants during conditional discrimination training and equivalence tests. It aimed to verify, for different sets of stimuli, the effect of different SCT (selection/rejection) over the eye movements patterns. Nonsense figures, letters, numbers and greek letters were used as visual stimuli. Initially, during the Base Line (BL) phase, all participants were submitted to AB/BC relations training and to the tests of transitivity (AC), symmetry (BA and CB), equivalence (CA) and reflexivity (AA, BB and CC), in this sequence, without biasing the establishment of any SCT. In the Rejection Control (RJ) phase, participants were submitted to DE/EF relations training in which the SCT reject was biased. After that, they went through the tests (DF, FE, ED, FD, DD, EE e FF). In the Selection Control (SL) phase, participants were submitted to GH/HI relations training in which the SCT select was biased. After that, they were submitted to the testes (GH, IH, GH, IG, GG, HH e II). Two participants were exposed to experimental phases in the sequence BL RJ SL. For the other ones the order of the last two phases were inverted (BL SL RJ). Following the suggestions of previews studies, in order to bias reject and select control, depending on the experimental phase, the proportions of S+ and S- during the training were manipulated. All participants showed high scores during the tests of BL and SL phases. In RJ phase, only one participant showed systematic failures in transitivity, equivalence and reflexivity tests a typical rejection performance. For this participant, in RJ phase, it was verified a high frequency of the topography of looking only at the S- before choosing one of the comparisons. In this phase, the frequency and the duration of looking at the S- were also higher then looking at the S+. The opposite was observed in the SL phase - a high frequency of the topography of looking only at the S+ before choosing and also a high frequency and duration of looking at the S+. In general, for those participants who did not failed in the testes of RJ phase, the topography, the frequency and the duration of looking at the S+ were higher when compared to the S- along all the experimental phases. The present study shows that for different SCT it was also observed differences in the topography, frequency and duration of looking at the S+ or S-. The results also suggest that it is necessary to investigate what kind of procedures are able to increase the chances of select and reject control to be exclusively establish during the training. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 06/05165-4 - Eye movements as observation responses in conditional discrimination training and in equivalence tests |
| Grantee: | William Ferreira Perez |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |