Banca de DEFESA: ANNE KELLY COSTA MORAIS

COOPERATION POST COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY AND INFLUENCE OF GESTURES IN VISUAL SPATIAL ACTIVITIES

Cooperation, Representational Gestures, Deictic Gestures, Information Storage Hypothesis, Post-collaboration sharing.

Cooperation is a behavior that benefits the other and is characterized by a decrease in the immediate fitness of those who practice it. Several hypotheses were created to explain the possible advantages and, therefore, the maintenance, in evolutionary terms of this behavior: the interdependence hypotheses, kin selection, direct and indirect reciprocity and cultural evolution. The expression of cooperation may vary according to sociodemographic characteristics, such as social class and gender, or even according to the presence of a collaborative activity before the division of resources. In addition to investigating factors associated with cooperation in children, the present work also proposes to understand the role of gestures in establishing visuospatial information in collaborative interactions. According to the Information Packaging Hypothesis, when there is a greater demand for conceptualization during a cognitive activity, the tendency is for more gestures to occur. To test this hypothesis in a collaborative context, videos of children performing a post-collaborative activity cooperation task were analyzed. The activity involved visuospatial processes and the gestures that occur after the two-part explanation of the task were analyzed. Regarding the earning and sharing of resources, only age was a relevant factor to influence them. Furthermore, there were no more gestures when the task showed greater cognitive demand.