PSYC 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Observer-Expectancy Effect
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Duration the amount of time that a behavior is occurring. Frequency pure frequency count, counting how many times something is occurring: frequency of errors or correct response, can turn that frequency into a rate. Aggression how many times the child hits someone or screams, etc. ~(use these next three when your not able to give full attention to the person or behavior) i. e. teachers who have too many kids to give full attention to each and every child~ Whole interval: does the behavior occur through the whole interval, tends to under estimate a behavior want to use it with behavior that you want to increase. ~usually, a lack of agreement between observers can be remedied by improving your behavioral definition. ~excellent observations are the product of a good behavioral definition and having chosen the appropriate direct observation technique. Because you need ot be able to trust the results and make sure that they are accurate.
