PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Trichotillomania, Anxiety Disorder, Junk Food
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Interobserver agreement: the degree of consistency of data collected by two or more observers. Two observes data and divided the small number of responses by the larger number of responses they recorded we would be using the session totals method of assessing ioa reliability. Point-by-point method: we would divide the number of intervals by the total number of intervals in which their records agreed or disagreed. Reactivity: observing behavior can affect its performance: trichotillomania is a anxiety disorder where you pull our hair, emotional eating is if your sad you eat instead of actually when your hungry. Modification is defining target beh which is decrease hair pulling. Target behavior wont be losing weight because that"s the end result. How would you measure the target behaviors: you would just keep a count of how many times stan pulls his hair. This is a frequency, so we would assess the frequency.
