ESQUIZOFRENIA: ESTUDO DE FALAS INAPROPRIADAS SOB MÚLTIPLAS CONDIÇÕES DE CONTROLE.

Abstract

The present study aimed functionally analyzes a person s verbal behavior, who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic undergoing treatment in specialized treatment. The participant was a female, 43 years old, born in the state of Goiás, low socioeconomic status, had a diagnosis of schizophrenia paranoid type (F20.0) and with history of hospitalization in several institutions. In order to control procedures was used the design of multiple conditions with three main conditions: attention condition (A), alone condition (S) and control condition (C). The condition (A) was manipulated in six sub conditions: (A1) attention, approval sign, (A2) attention, participant s name with comment, (A3) attention, failure sign; (A4) attention, comment, (A5) attention, eye contact, (A6) noncontinget attention; in the condition (S) the participant remained in the room in the absence of the researcher and condition (C), which the participant remained in the room made up reinforces in the presence of the researcher, who was pretending to whrite on a sheet of paper. The results showed that attention manipulated in different social conditions exerted control over the participant's inappropriate verbal behavior. They also showed that the condition (A) had the higher frequency of inappropriate speech. A functional analysis of participant s verbal behavior was made in each condition.