Review of the concept of response cost as effort or physical force in the Brazilian literature

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physical cost, physical effort, physical force, response cost, response effort

Abstract

The present study investigated whether researches that defines response cost, as mentioned above, uses references to define it and if they use the same definition of the concept. The terms "custo da resposta" and "custo de resposta" were searched in CAPES thesis and dissertation database and in seven journals with frequent publications of behavior analysts. We found 104 results, of which 12 defined the response cost as physical effort or physical force. The results were: (1) in nine articles, it was cited references that use effort without using the term response cost; (2) in one, there were references that used the term response cost without mentioning effort; (3) in other one there was some references that used response cost as physical effort or physical force and this paper was the only one that presented a congruent bibliographic basis of this term.

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João Ilo Coelho Barbosa, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Psicólogo graduado pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (1988) com mestrado em Psicologia Clínica pela Universidade de São Paulo (1992) e doutorado em Teoria e Pesquisa do Comportamento pela Universidade Federal do Pará (2006). Foi presidente da ABPMC - Associação Brasileira de Psicologia e Medicina Comportamental (2013-2014) e atualmente é professor associado da Universidade Federal do Ceará e Analista do Comportamento, com ênfase em Intervenção Terapêutica, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: terapia analítico-comportamental e eventos privados.

Published

2020-09-11

How to Cite

Teixeira, L. M., Barbosa, J. I. C., & de Oliveira Magalhães, T. (2020). Review of the concept of response cost as effort or physical force in the Brazilian literature. Brazilian Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, 22(1). Retrieved from https://rbtcc.com.br/RBTCC/article/view/1358

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Review Articles