FRHD 3150 Lecture 18: Strategies for Behaviour Change Lecture 18

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3150
• Professor: Christopher Quinn

Document Summary

Direct assessment: behaviours directly observed, advantage: more accurate than indirect as assessment, disadvantages, time consuming, observers need to be trained, can"t monitor covert behaviours. Characteristics to consider: topography, amount, intensity, stimulus control, latency, quality. Topography: the form of a particular response, physical appearance or movement involved with the response, can use various methods to help visualize and record. Intensity: force of a response, use various devices to measure forced, loudness of speech (measured in decibels, strength of grip (measured by grip meter) Stimulus control: behaviour occurs in the presence of certain stimuli and not others, high correlation between occurrence of stimulus and response. In these cases, you would record data about the stimuli controlling the behaviour of interest. )t isn"t necessarily distinct or separate from the pervious types, but it"s a different (cid:498)take(cid:499), and might be a combo of multiple.