O efeito do reforçamento positivo e negativo em tarefas de escolha de acordo com o modelo: Aquisição e manutenção.

Abstract

An important discussion in the Behavior Analysis refers to the use of positive reinforcement and aversive control in learning vvith matching to sample tasks. The purpose of this study vvas to verify the effect of negative and positive reinforcement in learning. Twenty-three children between the ages of six and eight participated in this research experiment. Three conditions vvere established to bring consequence from the participants in the activities: positive reinforcement (SR+), negative reinforcement (SR- ), and both arrangement (SR+SR-), based on the consequences for the correct response in the training conditions, but punishment and extinction vvere also programmed for the incorrect responses. Videos vvere used as a reinforce during the study. In the tasks vvith positive reinforcement, the videos’ focus and volume vvere improved every time the participant selected the correct stimulus. In the tasks vvith negative reinforcement, every time the participant selected the correct stimulus, it avoided the deprivation of focus and volume in the video for the subsequent response. In the experimental activities that vvere taught vvith positive and negative reinforcement, the tvvo contingencies operated. The experimental task vvas based on matching to sample, vvith the objective of teaching the relations Chinese Symbol (A), written vvord (B), and image (C) and testing (symmetry, transitivity, and equivalence relations. The stimuli set (animais, number, and States) vvere used to teach relations (AB-AC, BA-CA, BC-CB). The participants vvere submitted to all experimental conditions. The experimental stages vvere pre-training, pre-test, training, post-test, and follow-up sixty days after the tests. The results shovved that the condition vvith SR- achieved the learning criteria vvith the fevvest number of trials, follovved by conditioning vvith SR+SR-, and SR+. In general terms, the results allovv for nevv inquiries both for positive reinforcement and aversive control.