Dissertações em Teoria e Pesquisa do Comportamento (Mestrado) - PPGTPC/NTPC

URI Permanente para esta coleçãohttps://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/2333

O Mestrado Acadêmico iniciou-se em 1987 e pertence ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Teoria e Pesquisa do Comportamento (PPGTPC), que integra o Núcleo de Teoria e Pesquisa do Comportamento(NTPC) da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA).

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O conceito de ansiedade na análise do comportamento
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2006-04-08) COÊLHO, Nilzabeth Leite; TOURINHO, Emmanuel Zagury; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5960137946576592
Issues concerning to anxiety have been discussed in Psychology focusing several different aspects, but definitions of anxiety are far from consensual. The difficulty is due to several reasons, among which is the lack of a precise reference to behavioral relations. Divergence is also found in behavior-analytic literature. Some accounts stress the role of direct contingencies in controlling patterns of anxiety responses. Other definitions approach verbal aspects as possible sources of additional control. In the late accounts, the multiple functions of ones self-descriptive reports and also the semantic conditioning have been pointed out as possible explanations. In the present work, 47 papers were examined in the behavior-analytic literature in order to identify the types of behavioral relationships that are being suggested in the different uses of the concept of anxiety in the Behavior Analysis and the (in)compatibility of those approaches. The study took as reference categories of register that refer to what each author says in terms of respondent, not verbal operant, verbal operant components, and intervention perspectives. A more qualitative analysis was carried out with the use of analytical categories that refer to (1) the role performed by the physiologic alterations in the definition of anxiety; (2) the verbal and nonverbal operant relations involved in the phenomenon, and (3) the implications of each one of those analyses to a face-to-face verbal therapy. This exam made possible the identification of variations in the definitions concerning to (1) the type of behavioral relations involved; (2) the arrangement of contingencies that produce those relations; (3) the corporeal conditions produced concomitantly by the same contingencies; (4) to the functions of those corporeal conditions in the behavioral relations, and (5) the processes through which verbal stimuli participate in those relations. However, those variations in the definition can be understood as complementary analyses not incompatible with each other. The explanation of behavioral phenomenon based on a complexity continuum can be a model capable of joining those variations, making possible an understanding of (1) the relational network that can take place in an instance of anxiety, as well as (2) the function carried out by each one of the components in the anxiety.
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Uma discussão dos usos do termo eventos privados na análise do comportamento à luz de proposições do pragmatismo
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007-04-19) VASCONCELOS NETO, Aécio de Borba; TOURINHO, Emmanuel Zagury; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5960137946576592
Behavior Analysis distinguishes itself from other kinds of behaviorism by its original treatment for subjectivity. The concept of private events has been used in behavior-analytic literature as a major topic in the theme, allowing the scientist and the professional to deal with events inaccessible to public observation because of an instrumental criterion of truth. This paper aims to discuss the concept of private events from the standpoint of Pragmatism, a philosophy with which Behavior Analysis has been associated. Considering James and Rortys publications, the relevant implications of using the term private events are examined and the validity of such a concept to approach problems related to subjectivity is discussed using three analytical categories: (1) Implications of a relational verbal approach to the analysis of the issues concerning privacy; 2) Absence of a consensual view on the coherence between the concept of private events and the behavioral-analytic system; and 3) Functions of the concept of private events. We point out how is elaborated the importance of language for the definition of private world in behavior-analytic and also we point out the influence of that for a relational approach of subjectivity. We argue that behavior analysts have been using the term private events under control of phenomena with different nature and complexity, resulting in an absence of consensus about the coherence of the term with Behavior Analysis. When there is some consensus on this, there is a lack of consensus about the instrumentality of the concept. Thus, the coherence and the instrumentality of the concept of private events is conditioned to (1) which events the scientist or the professional is referring to, (2) the level of analysis (molar or molecular), and (3) the method used in the research. We found that, when there is some agreement about the coherence and the instrumentality of the concept, it is restricted to the papers dealing mainly with the context of clinical application. We conclude by stressing that the idea that the concept of private events is useful for Behavior Analysis is not fully accepted in the area, showing that more discussion on the concept of private events and the conceptual treatment of subjectivity is still needed.

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