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In this study, an analysis is made of the process of adapting and standardising the Luria-Christense neuropsychological set of tests for use by Brazilian children, teenagers and adults. The process is characterised by re...

Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that causes mental retardation in varying degrees. At the present time, the symptoms of this syndrome are well known, being the babies’ phenotypical characteristics a very essential ...

The aim of this study was to assess the short and mid-term effects of an instruction manual on the observable behaviors of caregivers of children with cancer during venipuncture in an outpatient setting. Twelve caregiver...

A interação criança-acompanhante é considerada central no processo de aquisição da linguagem. Este estudo procurou identificar e analisar padrões comportamentais (e.g., estratégias de ensino maternas; aquisiçõe...

Sitting and silent meditation can be described as a mental training, which has been traditionally associated with well-being. The growing scientific interest in it has helped confirm this association through various meth...

Studies carried out in alphabetic languages show that morphological awareness is related to the success in recognizing words and comprehension in reading and spelling. This study investigated whether morphological awaren...

A importância da compreensão leitora é indiscutível e as publicações nacionais sobre o tema ainda ocorrem em número modesto, tendo em vista o desempenho dos brasileiros em termos desta habilidade. Este artigo apre...

The aim of this article is to discuss the relation between the contemporary use and advertising of pharmaceutical drugs based on the so-called culture of consumption. We discuss advertising as a means of strengthening th...

Diversos autores vêm procurando identificar quais seriam as bases epistemológicas do Behaviorismo Radical de B. F. Skinner (1904-1990). Uma das influências mais importantes apontadas na literatura seria a obra de Fran...

The present paper aims to outline an overview of national and international publications concerning research on the communicative, cognitive and behavioral impairments associated with a right hemisphere stroke. Research ...

Investigando os efeitos de diferentes tipos de conseqüências sobre o seguimento de regras, 14 crianças foram expostas a um procedimento de escolha segundo o modelo. A tarefa era tocar um dos dois estímulos de compara...

The paper presents behavior analysis as a psychological system that assumes individual-environment relations as its subject matter, and then discusses some theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of such ...

The purpose of this article is to verify certain components of the contextualization of bone marrow transplanting and its interference in the care and interpretation of the psyche-body of the person who is suffering the ...

Este trabalho objetivou analisar a identidade social de catadores de material reciclável, ligada às posições que ocupam na sociedade, decorrentes de suas pertenças sociais. Realizaram-se grupos focais com catadores ...

Clinical Neuropsychology is a fairly recent field of work in Brazil, however, there is a growing demand for professionals within this specialty. Though the Federal Council of Psychology has already delineated this field ...

Like the formation of equivalence classes, their maintenance is affected by diverse experimental variables. The present study aimed to analyze the effect of class size on the formation and maintenance of equivalent stimu...

This research investigated academic competence and its relation to social skills and sociodemographic variables in a sample of 257 elementary school students from First through Fourth Grades, using the SSRS scale - Socia...

O trabalho verifica o conhecimento e a prática profissional relacionados às formas de diagnóstico e manejo da ansiedade odontológica pelos cirurgiões-dentistas. Os profissionais preencheram um questionário autoapli...

This article aimed to address the specificities of the diagnostic process in psychopathology in childhood from a literature review. At first, there was a theoretical basis on how psychoanalysis conceives diagnosis, contr...

The objective of this paper is to discuss the matter of psychiatric diagnostic when inserted in clinical psychoanalysis. Starting with issues and dilemmas between the vision of classic psychiatric psychopathology and psy...

This study aimed to investigate the difficulties of reading comprehension faced by some children in learning the written language. 194 second and third grade students from a public school in the suburbs of Poços de Cald...

Studies suggest that the response rate of humans under FI may be affected by the type of reinforcer. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the type of scheduled consequence for humans under FI would affect t...