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No presente artigo apresentam-se dois estudos com o objectivo de avaliar descrições de comporta -
mentos típicos de seis grupos profissionais distintos: programador de computadores, trabalhador das
obras, cozinheiro, médico, músico e agricultor. De um conjunto inicial de comportamentos gerados
para cada grupo profissional por um grupo de 83 participantes, foram seleccionados 420 que foram
avaliados por uma nova amostra de 122 participantes divididos em duas sub-amostras. Após a
determinação de medidas de tendência central e intervalos de confiança a 95%, os comportamentos
foram ordenados de acordo com a sua média de tipicidade. As listas de comportamentos obtidas
constituem um recurso para investigação futura em diversas áreas da psicologia nomeadamente nas
áreas da cognição situada e corporalizada e da memória de acção.
ABSTRACT: This paper presents two studies that evaluate behavioral descriptions typical of six different professional groups: computer programmer, construction worker, cook, physician, musician, and farmer. From an initial pool of behaviors generated for each professional group by a sample of 83 participants, 420 behaviors were selected and rated by two new sub-samples of 122 participants. After calculating central tendency measures and confidence intervals at 95% the behaviors were sorted according to their mean of typicality. The obtained lists of behaviors constitute a resource for future research in several fields of psychology such as situated and embodied cognition and action memory.
ABSTRACT: This paper presents two studies that evaluate behavioral descriptions typical of six different professional groups: computer programmer, construction worker, cook, physician, musician, and farmer. From an initial pool of behaviors generated for each professional group by a sample of 83 participants, 420 behaviors were selected and rated by two new sub-samples of 122 participants. After calculating central tendency measures and confidence intervals at 95% the behaviors were sorted according to their mean of typicality. The obtained lists of behaviors constitute a resource for future research in several fields of psychology such as situated and embodied cognition and action memory.
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Keywords
Descrições comportamentais Grupos profissionais Normas Tipicidade Behavioral descriptions Norms Professional groups Typicality
Citation
Laboratório de Psicologia, 9, 3-22
Publisher
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada