PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Tantrum, Decibel, Intellectual Disability
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Chapter 21 direct behavioral assesment: what to record and how. Characteristics of behavior to be recorded: topography of behavior, 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. It is the length of time that it occurs within some period: example: when measuring temper tantrums, you will be more concerned with the duration then the frequency. Measuring frequency would be hard as its ambiguous (to measure frequency of temper tantrum, which factor would you measure: screaming, hitting, etc. : duration of behavior is measured using timers, stopwatches, or clocks. Correct responses are reinforced and incorrect responses are followed by an error-correction procedure: any kind of test in which a person answers questions, is a test of the stimulus control of behavior. Such tests assess whether the correct answers are under the control of the questions: measuring stimulus control done using abla test.
