Escolha com variação de atraso: um procedimento de ajuste em ambiente digital

Abstract

Delay-discounting established conditions for the development of a range of procedural strategies for a detailed investigation of how people behave in complex situations, bringing increasingly specific descriptions of which aspects of the environment affect choices, being the delay to obtain the reinforcer one of these. This dissertation aimed to carry out the gamification of Mazur's procedure (1984), as a way to develop a research procedure in choice that would be engaging for human participants with adjustment. Therefore, a survey of the author's works that cited the original article Tests of an equivalence rule for fixed and variable reinforcer delays (1984) was carried out, which established the bases for further research. Based on what was found in this survey, an experiment was developed with the game Escolha Matemática 2.2 with eight participants, who had to choose between different delays to access a digital mini-game, in a way that recreated part of the conditions of the Mazur procedure (1984). The data were discussed in the light of the theoretical survey carried out, focusing on the comparability of this procedure with that of Mazur (1984), differences between humans and non-humans and effects of gamification. Although discount was identified for only one of the participants, the experiment raised important questions about the sensitivity of human organisms to molecular delays and future research possibilities