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标题：Evaluating the Interaction Among Instructions and Superstitious Behavior in Concurrent Schedules
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作者：Marcelo Frota Benvenuti ; Jéssica de Sousa ; Caio Flavio Miguel 等
期刊名称：Interação em Psicologia
印刷版ISSN：1516-1854
出版年度：2009
卷号：13
期号：01
出版社：Universidade Federal do Parana̧, Departamento de Psicologia
摘要：The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the interaction between instructions and“superstitious” behavior in an Ext component of a eqpe VI Ext schedule. Participants, high-schoolstudents, received correct or incorrect instructions at the beginning of the sessions. Correctinstructions consisted of telling the participants that they should respond to only one component of theschedule; incorrect instructions consisted of telling the participants to respond to both components ofthe schedule. After and before the sessions, participants received questions that asked what they wouldneed to do during sessions. Four of the seven participants responded both in Ext and in VIcomponents of concurrent schedule at last in one session. Analysis of frequencies of responses in Extcomponents showed that three of these four participants responded during the whole session.Superstitious behavior (responding in Ext component) depended on variability generated byinstructions or by non-verbal contingencies at the beginning of the sessions.