PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Intellectual Disability, Waking Hours, The Latency
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Direct behavioural assessment: what to record and how. In measuring behavior directly, six general characteristics should be considered: topography, amount, intensity, stimulus control, latency, and quality. Two measures of the amount of a given behavior are frequency and duration. Frequency (or rate) of behavior refers to the number of instances of a behavior that occur in a given period of time: for example; you want to improve the practice performance of figure skaters. Record the frequency with which they perform various jumps and spins. But first coach hume defined jumps and spins so that the observer know what behaviour they are looking for or know what to record. A spin was defined as spinning on one skate for a minimum of three revolutions while maintaining a balanced, stationary position. Now that they know what to look for coach hume took a baseline of the number of jumps and spins of each individual skater.
