PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Classical Conditioning, Stimulus Control, Intellectual Disability
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Direct behavioral assessment: what to record and how. Topography of behavior: the topography of a response is the specific movements involved in making the response. Picture prompts are sometimes useful for helping observers to identify variations in the topography of a response. Frequency (rate) of behavior: the number of instances of a behavior that occur in a given period of time. With appropriate apps obtained online or custom-made can be used to record more than one behavior, the behavior of more than one individual and the times at which each instance of behavior occurs. Frequency graph: each data point represents the total number of elements completed during a practice session. Because the small and somewhat inconsistent effects of the conditions, it is difficult to see clear difference between the conditions in this figure. Cumulative graph: each response for a condition during a session is cumulated or added to the total responses of all previous sessions for that condition.
