PSY 3103 Chapter 2: Ch 2 Terms
7 Mar 2017
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Chapter 2 appetitive stimulus aversive stimulus baseline case study approach. An event that an organism will seek out. The normal frequency of a behavior before some intervention. A descriptive research approach that involves intensive examination of one or a few individuals. changing- criterion design. A type of single-subject design in which the e(cid:215)ect of the treatment is demonstrated by how closely the behavior matches a criterion that is systematically altered. comparative design contingency. A type of control group design in which di(cid:215)erent species constitute one of the independent variables. A predictive relationship between two events such that the occurrence of one event predicts the probable occurrence of the other. control group design. Also known as private events or private behavior. cumulative recorder dependent variable. A device that measures total number of responses over time and provides a graphic depiction of the rate of behavior.
