Características atribuídas a jogos educativos: Uma interpretação Analítico-Comportamental

Abstract

The bibliography of empirical research that used educational games for the data collection has been reviewed in order to identify arguments in which authors specified the games characteristics and interpret these based on the principles of Behavior Analysis. A search with the boolean operator "AND" has been performed in the databases Scielo and Pepsic and the descriptors educational games, games AND education, games AND health (Base Scielo) and games; game; games AND toys (Pepsic). Seven articles were selected and the arguments that have underlined the following games have been identified: establishing operations, instructional and stimulus control (discrimination and generalization). It was recognized from the authors' arguments of the reviewed literature that educational games have characteristics of teaching strategies and motivating, leading to the conclusion that they can contribute to the programming of effective and efficient teaching.