PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Golf Stroke Mechanics
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Published on 25 Jan 2013
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Lecture 4
Chapter 2
➢Historical Roots (continued)
Diagram
Very beginning = just research papers
Next, organizations = professional interaction
Next, journals
CHAPTER 2
➢TYPES OF BEHAVIOUR ASSESSMENT
Direct
Observation & recording of target behaviour in vivo
Most accurate (100% almost)
Indirect
3rd party measuring behaviour
•interviews
•questionnaires
•rating scales
Disadvantages
•People could lie
•Faulty memory
➢RECORDING BEHAVIOUR
1) DEFINE THE TARGET BEHAVIOUR
2) IDENTIFY WHO, WHEN, AND WHERE TO RECORD (THE LOGISTICS OF RECORDING)
Requires close proximity → either in person or video recording
Target behaviours are typically recorded by someone else
Observation period → when the target behaviour is most likely to occurr
Consent must be obtained first (either from client or parent)
Can occur in a natural setting OR contrived setting
•There are benefits to both
Structured observation vs. Unstructured observation (contrived settings)
3) CHOOSE A RECORDING METHOD
Continuous Recording
•Can measure 1 or more of the physical dimensions → frequency, duration, intensity.
•Measuring from beginning of behaviour till end
•Recording w/o interruption
•Latency → time btwn a given stimulus and the onset of a target behaviour
•identifying a change in the latency period could indicate whether the treatment was
effective or not.
Percentage of Opportunites
•Occurrence of a behaviour is recorded in relation to some other event (e.g. Response
opportunity)