C00 Introduction to Measurement, Data Display, & Interpretation

Question 1

Trials to criterion is the

Answer 1

Number of response opportunities to achieve a performance standard

Question 2

The musician needed to play the piece at 60 notes per minute in order to play the music according to the composer’s instructions. Which measure would be most useful?

Answer 2

Rate = responses / time

Question 3

The practitioner recorded that the client completed 9 out of 10 steps of the laundry task or 90% of the steps. What type of measure did the practitioner collect?

Answer 3

Percent of occurrence

formed by combining the TWO SAmE dimensional quantes such as count and use them together to get precent

Question 4

What is the minimum observal intervals needed or response opportunites needed to use Precent Occurance

Answer 4

30!!

Disadvanges is that precent NO NoT have dimensional value

Question 5

The practitioner recorded that the client took 10 minutes to complete the laundry task. What type of measure did the practitioner collect?

Answer 5

Duration

Question 6

The practitioner recorded that the client took 10 minutes between the end of one step and the beginning of the next step in the laundry task. What type of measure did the practitioner collect?

Answer 6

Inter-response time

Question 7

The martial arts students needed to perform 70% of the techniques correctly in order to pass his belt test. Which measure would be the most useful?

Answer 7

Percent of occurrence

Question 8

The martial arts instructor wanted to decrease the number of trials it took his student to perform a technique correctly. Which measure would be most useful?

Answer 8

Trials to criterion

Question 9

A child engages in a low occurrence of aggression in the classroom. If we reported instances of aggression based on a weekly timeframe, which measure would be most appropriate?

Answer 9

Frequency

Key word occurance

Question 10

Trial - to - Criterion is

A measure of —————opportunities needed to achieve a ____________ level of performance criteria

Answer 10

number of response opportunities ——————-

predetermined level of proformance critieral

Question 11

Latency is the

Answer 11

Measure of time between an environmental event and a response

Question 12

Trials to Criterion can use

Answer 12

• count
• rate
• duration
• latencey

Question 13

Particularly when collection frequency or duration data, it is important that the behavior definition describes

Answer 13

A topography with a clear onset and offset

Question 14

The practitioner recorded that the client said the word “no” 100 times during the session. What type of measure did the practitioner collect?

Answer 14

Frequency

Question 15

The student needed to write 10 words per minute in order to complete the writing assignment by the deadline. Which measure would be the most useful?

Answer 15

Rate

Question 16

Frequency is

Answer 16

The number of responses

Question 17

Inter-response time is the

Answer 17

Measure of time between the end of one response and the beginning of the next one

Question 18

Percent of occurrence is the

Answer 18

Number of responses divided by number of opportunities and multiplied by 100

Question 19

The practitioner recorded that it took the client 10 trials to reach the 100% performance standard for the laundry task. What type of measure did the practitioner collect?

Answer 19

Trials to criterion

key words

Question 20

The martial arts students needed to block within one seconds after the instructor threw a punch in order to keep from getting injured. Which measure would be most useful?

Answer 20

Latency

Question 21

The practitioner recorded that the client said the word “no” 100 times during a 10 minute session. What type of measure did the practitioner collect?

Answer 21

Rate

Question 22

The musician needed to pause at least 5 seconds between the end of the first section and beginning of the next section in order to play the music according to the composer’s instructions. Which measure would be most useful?

Answer 22

Inter-response time

Question 23

The martial arts student needed to remain in horse stance for 10 minutes in order to pass his belt test. Which measure would be the most useful?

Answer 23

Duration

Question 24

The practitioner recorded that the client took 10 minutes to start the laundry task after being asked to do laundry. What type of measure did the practitioner collect?

Answer 24

Latency

Question 25

The practitioner recorded a x2 ration of improvement in the client’s rate of completing the steps in the laundry task per 10 minutes of instructional time between the two responses rates. What type of measure did the practitioner collect?

Answer 25

Celeration

refers to number per unit of time per unit of time.

In behavior analysis (Precision Teaching) the most common measure of celeration has been number per minute per week.

Frequency on a Standard Chart.

Question 26

Rate is the

Answer 26

Number of responses per unit of time

Question 27

Duration is the

Answer 27

Measure of time from the beginning to the end of a response

Question 28

The martial arts instructor wanted to find a teaching procedure that produced the most improvement in the student’s rate of blocking punches per amount of teaching time. Which measure would be most useful?

Answer 28

Celeration