COMPORTAMENTO ANTI-SOCIAL INFANTIL SOB A ERSPECTIVA DOS PRINCÍPIOS DA ANÁLISE DO COMPORTAMENTO

Abstract

The present study had the following aim to verify the effectiveness and efficacy of the principles of Behavior Analysis by the comprehension of antisocial behavior of children in risk situation, that participate in a program to prevent juvenile delinquency in a non-governmental organization, in the city of Goiânia. The participants were six educators of both sexes that received informations and training about the basic concepts of the Applied Behavoir Analysis to intervene in the anti-social behaviors presented by seventy kids that participated in different pedagogic workshops of the institution. There were selected three anti-social behaviors (physical aggression, verbal aggression and to disobedience) to suffer intervention. For the control of the procedures, type AB Delineation was used succeeded by follow up. The delineation began with the data collection in the Base Line phase and later it was initiated the Intervention phase, in which procedures of positive reinforcement, were used to increase the adequated behaviors, including the system of cards as immediate reinforcement, time-out and extinction to weaken the inadequated behaviors. The results showed that the Intervention was effective in the reduction of the anti-social behaviors when compared to the Base Line phases. The results were discussed in terms of the applied methodology of the effects reached and the corroboration of the data with the theory.