Chapter 4- Measuring Behavior

Question 1

Measurement

Answer 1

The process of applying quantitative labels to describe and differentiate objects and natural events.

Question 2

Repeatability

Answer 2

AKA countability, frequency. Instances a behavior can occur repeatedly through time.

Question 3

Temporal extent

Answer 3

Every instance of behavior occurs during some amount of time. Duration

Question 4

Temporal locus

Answer 4

Every instance of behavior occurs at a certain point in time with respect to other events

Question 5

Rate

Answer 5

Number of responses per unit of time

Question 6

Free operant

Answer 6

Refers to the behaviors that have discrete onsets and offsets, do not depend on discriminative stimuli, involve minimal displacement of the organism in time and space, and can be emitted over a wide range of response rates. Ex. Flopping to the floor in hallway

Question 7

Trials-to-criterion

Answer 7

A measure of the number of response opportunities needed to achieve a predetermined level of performance.

Question 8

Momentary time sampling

Answer 8

Easy to take, but inaccurate, teachers can use.

Question 9

Planned activity check

Answer 9

Measures group behavior

Question 10

Artifact

Answer 10

Phenomenon that appears to exist because of the way it is examined or measured.

Question 11

Count

Answer 11

A simple tally of the number of occurrences of a behavior.

Question 12

Discrete trials

Answer 12

Any operant whose response rate is controlled by a given opportunity to emit the response. Each discrete response occurs when an opportunity to respond exists.

Question 13

Celeration

Answer 13

A measure of how rates of response change over time.

Question 14

Duration

Answer 14

The amount of time from the onset to the end point of a response.

Question 15

Latency

Answer 15

A measure of the elapsed time between the onset of a stimulus and a subsequent response

Question 16

Interresponse time (IRT)

Answer 16

A measure of the amount of time that elapses between two consecutive instances of behavior.

Question 17

Topography

Answer 17

Physical form or shape of behavior

Question 18

Magnitude

Answer 18

The force or intensity of a response

Question 19

Event recording

Answer 19

A variety of procedures for detecting and recording the number of times a behavior of interest occurs.

Question 20

Time sampling

Answer 20

A variety of methods for observing and recording behavior during intervals or at specific moments in time.

Question 21

Whole-interval recording

Answer 21

At the end of each interval the observer records whether the target behavior occurred throughout the whole interval

Question 22

Partial-interval recording

Answer 22

The observer records whether the behavior occurred at any time during the interval.

Question 23

Momentary time sampling

Answer 23

The observer records whether the target behavior occurred at the moment the time interval ends.

Question 24

Measurement by permanent product

Answer 24

Measuring behavior after it has occurred by observing the effects the behavior produced on the environment