Available data on adjunctive behavior are briefly reviewed, stressing some important functional and descriptive features and their application to the analysis of some human behavioral problems. The experimental study being described focused on me induction of smoking behavior through the…

An introduction to modelling latent variable as an analytic strategy for data in behavioral research is presented. This strategy allows to model and manipulate constructs, in contrast to other analytical aproaches that only deal with observed variables. Procedures such as…

Fourteen mother-retarded child dyada were formally and functionally classified in their interactions in four different contexts: feeding, personal cleaning, homework and free play. Categories employed to analyze those interactions were derived from interactive functional levels proposed by Ribes and López.…

The scientific production related to the concept of interactive styles, one of the dispositional factors described in the theory of behavior of Ribes and López (1985), is analyzed with the purpose of pointing out both the achievements and the issues…

Se describen las aplicaciones potenciales de las ecuaciones estructurales al análisis de constructos de la Teoría de la Conducta de Ribes y López (1985), con el objeto de ampliar sus posibilidades de investigación y enriquecer el trabajo conceptual. Bajo esta…

Changes in the tendency of children to describe and elaborate ten different kinas of realtions were explored in a two-year period. Thirty-five children solved a task of identifying relations and then, answered to questions made in interviews on three different…

280 niños del primer grado de primaria desarrollaron una serie de tareas de lectura y escritura (las morfologías de las tareas) de diferente grado de complejidad (sus niveles funcionales). Los niveles de complejidad de las tareas se pre-establecieron como funciones…

Three experiments were done to evaluate the effects of instructions and performance descriptions, with and without solution criterion, on the facilitation of contingency-substitution interactions. Thirty two college students, of both sexes, volunteered to participate, and were randomly distributed in eight…