PSY-2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tantrum, Whopper
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Why measure behavior: communication, precision, efficiency, objectivity, reinforcement, feedback. Requirements for measurement: objectivity, reliability, efficiency, validity. Clip board, pencil, timers, counters, laptop, data sheets. Interval recording: direct measurement of permanent products, event recording. 3: time sampling, duration recording, placheck recording, recording maintaining events. Instructions to o: at 8 pm daily, count the number of undershorts in the laundry bin of each client. Variability- day to day fluctuation in behavioral rate. Trend- rate changes in a given direction occurring gradually over time. If it is 9 am, what is todays date? a: the data of which client is most variable? (6,7,7,6, the data of which client is least variable? (15,1,6,9, the data of which client indicates a trend? (12,10,8,6) Important behavior: patterns, maintaining events, easily fabricated. Instructions to o: place a line under each successive number of the row next to appropriate date each time the client lights a cigarette during the morning sessions.
