Andréia is psychologist, graduated from the Federal University of Paraná (1993), with a Master's Degree in Special Education from the Federal University of São Carlos (1999) and a Ph.D. in Psychology (Experimental Psychology) from the University of São Paulo (2004). She is currently an associate professor of Psychology at the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, and a master's and doctoral advisor at the Postgraduate Program in Psychobiology at the University of São Paulo. Researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology on Behavior, Cognition, and Teaching. She is president of the Brazilian Society of Psychology (2022-2023). Currently, she is the vice-coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Psychobiology. She has experience as a researcher in the following subjects: instructional control, relational learning, symbolic behavior, verbal behavior, and behavior analysis. She has developed studies with preschool children and the elderly, healthy and with neurocognitive disorders. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Shared storybook reading to children is an activity that produces important effects on vocabulary learning by children of different ages. This increase in vocabulary has important repercussions on the children's academic performance, which justifies efforts to understand the role of different variables involved in this activity. The aim of this project is to investigate a set of variables…
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The development of verbal repertoires depends on both biological and social variables. Regarding social variables, researches have highlighted the role of children's interactions with adults who are part of their verbal community. School is a fundamental space for developing those repertoires. Therefore, researches have emphasized the role of training preschool teachers, but some interven…
Exposure to chronic stressors has been used as animal model for the study of depression, once, since it has been shown to cause anhedonia. In addition, chronic stress has been shown to be effective in altering the performance of rats in acquisition and retention tasks. Most studies using chronic stress lasting for 21 days or more have observed an impairment on animal performance. However,…
When stimuli arbitrarily related evoke the same response, they form a functional class. In these cases, any change to the contingencies applied to one of the elements is transferred to the others (function transference), and this is the main practice that allows us to infer the establishment of these classes on the organisms. The expansion of stimuli classes occurs by direct training, but…
Education at Preschools and Kindergartens aims to promote the integral development of the child from 0 to 5 years old. Among the dimensions that must be developed there is the language. From Behavior Analysis' perspective, language is verbal behavior. The development of the verbal repertoire depends on an appropriate biological apparatus and the manipulation of ontogenetic and cultural co…
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