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  1. The use of this term (and its opposite, insensitivity) is not consistent among the authors in the area (for more details, see Nico, 1999). Given that these terms are frequently found in the literature, they will be employed here according to Madden, Chase, and Joyce (1998), who classified behavior as sensitive to contingencies when it changes systematically following changes in contingencies, and as insensitive to contingencies when even after there are changes in contingencies, there is no systematic change.

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This study was part of the research program of the Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia sobre Comportamento, Cognição e Ensino (Deisy G. de Souza, chairperson), supported by grants from the National Research Council (CNPq, Grant 573972/2008-7) and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, Grant 08/57705-8). Preparation of the manuscript was also supported by Grants from CNPq # 465686/2014-1, and FAPESP # 2014/50909-8. The first and second authors were supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the São Paulo Research Foundation, (Grants 2014/01874-7 and 2012/21425-7). The third author was supported by a research productivity fellowship from CNPq.

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    Mariéle Diniz Cortez & Julio C. de Rose

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de Almeida, J.H., Cortez, M.D. & de Rose, J.C. The Effects of Monitoring on Children’s Rule-Following in a Computerized Procedure. Analysis Verbal Behav 36, 295–307 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-020-00130-5

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