Potencial preditivo do teste ABLA na aquisição de treinos de discriminações condicionais auditivo-visuais e teste de outras discriminações condicionais

• Ano de defesa: 2003
• Autor(a) principal: Guilhardi, Cíntia
• Orientador(a): Andery, Maria Amália
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Psicologia Experimental: Análise do Comportamento
• Departamento: Psicologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Teste ABLA; Discriminação condicional; Avaliação comportamental; Controle de estímulos; Avaliacao de comportamento
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: ABLA test; Conditional discrimination; Behavioral assessment; Stimulus control
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/16634

The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) test assesses the ability of persons with developmental disabilities to learn five tasks involving different forms of stimulus control: Motor Imitation, Position Discrimination, Visual Discrimination, Matching to Sample and Auditory-Visual Conditional Discrimination. These tasks are hierarchically ordered according to the complexity of the stimulus control present in each of them, and the individual's performance in each of them is supposed to be predictive of other task performances that involve the same sort of stimulus control. The present study investigated if performance on the ABLA test is predictive of performance on the training of auditory-visual conditional discriminations (spoken words - pictures and spoken words - written words), stimulus equivalent test (reflexivity, transitivity, equivalence) and naming (pictures and words). Ten developmentally disabled students and four "normal" children were the study's participants. All participants were assessed on the~ ABLA test. Nine participants were, then, exposed to an auditory-visual matching to sample training of three stimulus classes and tested for the other conditional discrimination relations, involving the same three stimulus classes (composed of pictures, spoken and written words). Subjects were also tested for naming of both, pictures and words. Afterwards, all 14 participants were reassessed on the ABLA test Results indicated that ABLA may be partially predictive of performance on conditional discrimination training and on the emergence of stimulus equivalent classes: individuals who scored 6 on ABLA (its highest level) had a better performance on the conditional discrimination training than others who scored 1, 2, or 3. A participant who scored 4 on ABLA reached criteria on the training of conditional discriminations, but failed during tests of emergent relations