As quatro hipóteses na formação dos reforçadores condicionados: uma discussão baseada na revisão em manuais clássicos da análise do comportamento

Abstract

This work studies different ways in which conditioned reinforcement is explained by several classical authors in Behavioral Analysis. A literature review encompassing book chapters and sub-chapters which titles contained the terms “conditioned reinforces” revealed four main hypotheses explaining such behavioral process. It was observed that the subject is treated differently by different authors, and that the concept of classical conditioning can provide us great assistance in understanding this phenomenon. This work concludes that those four hypothesis could be synthetized in two: (i) one that is related to the creation of discriminative stimuli and (ii) one that is associated with classical conditioning