Researcher in the experimental school for primates: from experimenter to contingency programmer

Authors

  • Romariz da Silva Barros
  • Olavo de Faria Galvão
  • Aline Cardoso Rocha

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v9i2.4800

Keywords:

research methodology, researcher behavior, results feedback on experimental design

Abstract

The main purpose of the present work is to show changes in the methodological orientation conducting experiments in a laboratory dedicated to stimulus control research in primates. The researcher behavior was analyzed in four experiments conducted in that research unity. As decision making, the researcher behavior was initially emphatically controlled by the experimental plan, with emphasis in the control by the procedure, and then became progressively more sensitive to the subject’s performance, with emphasis in the control by the results. Along our work, rebuilding the steps of the procedure, adding or subtracting phases from original plan became more likely. These changes in the methodological orientation are directly linked to the change of the name of the referred research unity to Experimental School for Primates, as the research procedures began to be viewed as teaching conditions.

 

Keywords: research methodology; researcher behavior; results feedback on experimental design.

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Barros, R. da S., Galvão, O. de F., & Rocha, A. C. (2005). Researcher in the experimental school for primates: from experimenter to contingency programmer. Interação Em Psicologia, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v9i2.4800

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2005)

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