Behavioural Sciences BHS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Operational Definition

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Bhs 202 (friday january 29 th , 2016) Single subject collection method (each participant is exposed to all experimental conditions; meaning it"s the only person) you are comparing the individual to themselves so it gets better results. Conditions in an experiment: baseline (a), treatment (b). Effectiveness shown through visual analysis, repeated measurement and measuring dv frequently. Group design: matched groups (10 people who wrote a test with more than 8 hours, then 10 who had less) then compare the averages. Group design is hard to match behaviour and diagnosis because they"re all different (cant get a true match) Data comes through backup raw data to summarized data to graphed data. Discontinuous: partial interval (anytime), whole interval (whole interval), Continuous data collection methods: frequency and duration (hard) momentary time sampling (at the very end). Assessing the degree that two independent observers agree on the occurrence or non-occurrence of behaviour.

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