CHYS 3P47 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operational Definition, Starbucks, Functional Analysis
20 Jan 2016
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A= antecedent (what happens before the behaviour) Ex how often does you child do as he/she is told? (1=never. Direct observation and recording of the target behaviour as. Objective: it can be observed (by one or more of the 5 senses). It does not include any reference to internal states nor to a person"s motives. Guessing and subjective judgments, on the part of the observers, are not required. Clear: the behaviour clear such that an observer can read it, and readily perform the response (if they can demonstrate what is written about the behaviour then it is clear) Complete: it describes what an instance of the behaviour, and what is not an instance of the behaviour. A non-example is a behaviour that may be mistaken for the target behaviour (usually 2-3 examples) Sucked his thumb, hand mouthing, hitting phones against hand.
