Measurement

Question 1

Repeatably/ countably are instances of what?

Answer 1

instances of a response class can occur repeatedly through time
Examples
Count, Frequency/Rate or Celeration

Question 2

What is temporal extent?

Answer 2

`Every instance of behavior occurs during some amount of time
Example- Duration- total duration per session, duration per occurence

Question 3

What is temporal locus?

Answer 3

Every instance of behavior occurs at a certain point in time with respect of other events.
Example- Response latency, Inter response time (IRT)

Question 4

What are derivative measures?

Answer 4

Percentages, and Trials to Criterion

Question 5

What are definitional measures?

Answer 5

Topography and Magnitude

Question 6

What is count?

Answer 6

It is a type of repeatability . Count is the number of occurrences of a behavior.
Examples- Number of correct spelling words
Number of times Margie was late, number of cookies eaten, how many times Joey hit Johnny

Question 7

What is rate/frequency?

Answer 7

The number of responses per unit of time

Examples- words typed per minute, three beers in one hour, one aggressive episode per 30 minutes

Question 8

What are some things to consider using rate/frequency?

Answer 8

Unit of time, rates of both correct and incorrect response rates and complexity of the response

Question 9

What are free operants?

Answer 9

They are behaviors that have discrete beginning and ending points, require minimal displacement in time and space, can be emitted at any time, don’t require much time, and can be emitted over wide rage of response rate
Example- Bar press, hand wave, steps taken, words read

Question 10

What should and shouldn’t be used with free operants?

Answer 10

Rate is great to use with free operants
Don’t use rate for discrete trail responses
and measuring duration

Question 11

What is celeration?

Answer 11

The measure of how rates of response change over time

Question 12

What are two types of celeration?

Answer 12

Acceleration- gets faster over time example- increasing reading speed
Deceleration- gets slower over time
Example- slowing down the pace of eating

Question 13

What is duration?

Answer 13

Amount of time in which a behavior occurs and a type of temporal extent

Question 14

What is total duration per session?

Answer 14

Cumulative amount of time in which a person engaged in a behavior
Example Johnny cried for total of 95 minutes today Margie was on task for 39 of the 45 minutes observed

Question 15

What is duration per occurance?

Answer 15

Duration of time that each instance of the target behavior occurs. Example. It took Kathy 8 minutes to walk from classroom to bathroom Marty tantrummed two times today once for 15 mins and 18 mins

Question 16

What is response latency?

Answer 16

A type of temporal locus that is elapsed time between the onset of a stimulus and the initiation of a response.
Example. It took 5 seconds for George to respond to his name

Question 17

What is inter-response time? (IRT)

Answer 17

Amount of time that elapses between two consecutive instances of a response.
Example. It takes Marty 25 sec to transition to the next activity in his work schedule

Question 18

What are percentages?

Answer 18

Expresses the proportional quantity of some event in terms of the number of times the event occurred per 100 opportunities
Example- 39 correct/50 total questions=.79.x100 =79%

Question 19

What are trials-to-criterion?

Answer 19

Number of response opportunities needed to achieve a predetermined level of performance.
Example. It took Sammy 17 trials to correctly write his first name

Question 20

What is topography?

Answer 20

Is the physical form or shape of a behavior. Responses of varying form can be detected form one another

Question 21

What is magnitude?

Answer 21

Force or intensity with which a response is emitted

Example-speaking too loud