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- Title
INTERPRETATIONS FOR REINFORCED BEHAVIORAL VARIABILITY: A COMPARATIVE SYSTEMATIZATION.
- Authors
da Costa Leite, Emerson Ferreira; Micheletto, Nilza
- Abstract
Experimental studies in Behavior Analysis have consistently demonstrated the effect of reinforcement contingencies on the increase in behavioral variability in nonhumans and humans. Despite their regularity and generality, the data presented in the literature have given rise to a variety of interpretations, leading to controversies over how to account for reinforced behavioral variability. The present study systematized the literature about variability with the aim of identifying and characterizing these interpretations, their underpinnings, and the criticisms directed at them. We identified interpretations involving the notion of variation as an operant behavior or, at least, as an operant dimension of behavior, and interpretations that dismissed this notion in characterizing the increase in variability as a secondary effect of behavioral processes present in variation contingencies. Not all interpretations found were based on established empirical bases, and only some were commented on or criticized by authors in the area.
- Subjects
OPERANT behavior; BEHAVIORAL assessment; REINFORCEMENT (Psychology)
- Publication
Behavior & Philosophy, 2023, Vol 51, p15
- ISSN
1053-8348
- Publication type
Article