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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
André Varella, Ph.D., BCBA has a major in Psychology, a master's degree in Special Education and obtained his Ph.D. in Psychology at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). Dr. Varella is a board certified behavior analyst (BCBA) and has experience in Applied Behavior Analysis, autism and Experimental Analysis of Behavior. His main interest is in investigating the behavioral processes related to language and human cognition, especially in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities, and developing teaching procedures to establish symbolic and verbal behavior for individuals diagnosed with ASD. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Learning comparative relations ("more than", "less than", "bigger than", "smaller than") require the establishment of ordinal relations between stimuli. These repertoires have been investigated by an expansion of stimulus equivalence paradigm and also by Relational Frame Theory (RFT). Some studies have suggested that conceptual repertoires (nonarbitrary relational responding) may facilita…
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