C- Establish Operational Definitions Of Behavior

Question 1

Count/frequency

Answer 1

The number of times of response or behavior occurs

Question 2

Rate

Answer 2

Frequency with a time component added. Frequency per time.

Ex. You ate 10 peanuts per minute

Question 3

Percentage

Answer 3

A rate number or amount per hundred

Ex. You made 6/10 shots or 60%.

Question 4

Temporal extent

Answer 4

Duration (how long)

Question 5

Temporal locus

Answer 5

Where the behavior occurs at a certain point in time (latency, IRT)

Question 6

Repeatability

Answer 6

How many times the behavior occurs

Question 7

Latency

Answer 7

The time between the presentation of the SD and the start of the response

Question 8

IRT

Answer 8

The time between the end of a response and the start of another response.

Question 9

Topography

Answer 9

What the behavior looks like

Question 10

Magnitude

Answer 10

The intensity or severity of the behavior 

Question 11

Trials to criterion

Answer 11

The number of opportunities (trials) needed to achieve the predetermined level of success (criterion)

Ex. The mastery level is six correct matches. It takes your client 10 tries to get six matches. The trials to criterion were 10.

Question 12

Partial interval recording

Answer 12

If the behavior occurs at all during the interval

Question 13

Whole interval recording

Answer 13

If the behavior occurs for the entire interval

Question 14

Momentary time sampling

Answer 14

If the behavior happens at the end of the interval 

Question 15

Discontinuous measurement

Answer 15

Only recording certain instances of behavior

Question 16

Continuous measurement

Answer 16

Recording every instance of behavior

Question 17

Interval recording

Answer 17

A specific length of time when data will be taken

Question 18

PLACHECK (planned activity check)

Answer 18

Recording the number of participants engaged in the activity at the end of an interval

Question 19

Accurate

Answer 19

The collected data truthfully reflects what was measured.

Ex. Your record frequency data on blueberries eat the client ate 10 blueberries recorded 10 blueberries eaten.

Question 20

Valid

Answer 20

The collected data is taken for the correct intended behavior

Ex. Do you want to record the length of time it takes your client to complete a worksheet but instead you record how long it takes for them to start the worksheet. This data is not valid.

Question 21

Reliability

Answer 21

The collected data is produced repeatedly if the measurement system does not change

Ex. If your client eats 10 blueberries every day, you reliably record 10 data points every day. 

Question 22

Visual analysis

Answer 22

Looking at graphed data and making determinations

Question 23

Equal interval graph

Answer 23

Graphs were the distance between two consecutive points on the X and Y axis represent the same value

Question 24

Line graph

Answer 24

The most common form of graph and ABA, the X axis represents time in the Y axis represents behavior 

Question 25

Cumulative Record

Answer 25

He continuous and ever in increasing data path that accumulate as data points are recorded. A steeper slope represents an increased response rate.

Question 26

Scatterplot

Answer 26

Hey distribution of data point across a data set X and Y are relative to each other

Ex. You want to find out what time of day the behavior occurs most 

Question 27

Semi logarithmic graph (standard celeration)

Answer 27

Used in precise, teaching. used to chart fluency

Question 28

Level

Answer 28

We’re out of points are relative to the Y axis. Level can be low, moderate or high. A change in level represents a change in the height of data points. 

Question 29

Variability

Answer 29

The amount of variation between data points. the range of data points around the average of data points. Variability can be high or low. 

Question 30

Trend

Answer 30

The direction of data path is headed on the graph trend can be eat, increasing decreasing or no trend