Lecture 2 - Measuring behaviour

Question 1

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Question 2

What are two formal ways of measuring behaviour?

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• Continuous recording
• Interval recording

Question 3

How would we measure the reliability of rate data?

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Inter observe reliability

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Question 4

What is the main way that you can increase inter observer reliability?

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By having a really precisely defined target behaviour.

Question 5

What is a simple frequency graph?

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A graph in which each data point indicates the number of times a behaviour occurred over a period of time.

Question 6

What is a cumulative frequency graph?

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A graph in which each data point indicates the total number of times the behaviour has occurred up to that point in time.

Question 7

What is a single case experimental design?

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Question 8

What is a baseline period?

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Question 9

What is an ABAB reversal design?

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Question 10

What is a multiple baseline design?

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Question 11

What is an alternate treatment design?

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Question 12

Describe an A-B design method

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Question 13

Describe the Dadarrio et al. (2007) study that uses an A-B design.
Critically analyse the study

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Question 14

Describe the Krentz et al (2016) study that uses the A-B-A-B reversal design.

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Question 15

Describe a multiple baseline design method.

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Question 16

Describe the Gordon & Cautela (1988) study that used a multiple baseline design method.

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Question 17

Describe an alternating treatment design method.

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Question 18

Describe the Hua et al. (2020) study that used an alternating treatment design.

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Question 20

Describe an ecological momentary assessment.

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Question 21

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Question 22

Define “continuous recording”

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Recording each and every occurrence of a target behaviour within a given period.

Question 23

Define “interval recording”

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Recording whether a behaviour occurs during each of a series of short intervals within an observation period.

Question 24

Define “inter-observer reliability”

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Inter observer reliability: a measure of the degree of agreement in data tallies made by two or more observers.

Question 25

What reliability score would most BCBAs be happy with?

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Most BCBAs would be happy with a reliability score of 90, anything below 80 would be seen as unreliable.