Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.

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Measurement, Data Display, and Data-Based Decisions

This assignment is the second component of your Assessment, Intervention Support, and Related Systems project. Before proceeding with the assignment, please review the activities in the Unit 1 studies to refresh your memory on the functions, dimensions, and procedures of measurement and graphic display of behavioral data in applied behavior analysis.

For this assignment, you will be assessed on your understanding of the following course competencies:

· Apply measurement, data display, and data-based decisions to effectively change human behavior.

· Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and consistent with expectations for professionals in the field of psychology.

In your second project component, complete the following:

1. Measurement: Explain the process of measurement you will use to analyze your case study. In your explanation, take into consideration environmental variables, available resources, and behavior of interest relevant to your case study. Remember, applied behavior analysts measure behavior to answer questions about the existence and nature of functional relations between socially significant behavior and environmental variables.

2. Data Display: Select an appropriate form of visual display of behavioral data (choose from line graphs, bar graphs, cumulative records, semi-logarithmic charts, or scatterplots) from which valid and reliable decisions are best analyzed in your case study. Remember, the visual format you select should depend on the type of raw data you collect from your case study and the primary purpose of its evaluation.

3. Data-Based Decisions: Justify how the selected form of data display will best allow you to make data-based decisions for your case study. Remember, the primary function of graphic displays of behavioral data is to communicate quantitative relations. Take into consideration validity, accuracy, and reliability of data.

How to Organize Your Paper

Use the following subheadings in your paper and format your subheadings in APA style.

1. Measurement.

2. Data Display.

3. Data-Based Decisions.

Additional Requirements

· Written communication: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.

· APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style guidelines.

· Resources: At least 3–5 scholarly resources.

· Length: 5–6 double-spaced pages, excluding title page and list of references.

· Explain how social psychology theories or principles could be applied to account for each of the responses in the scenario (e.g., which principles/theories could explain response type A; which principles/theories could explain response type B, and so on).

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3-4 Page paper with references APA format- Please read below:

  • Think      about the influence of environmental and social context on behavior.
  • Reflect  on the following social media scenario:
  • You are reading posts in your favorite social media site, when you come      across a post by a 19-year-old male. He writes that he was raped at a party last night and he’s afraid they will post pictures of it online. He is contemplating suicide. You notice three types of behaviors in the comments to him:
  1. A small group of individuals are using profanity and belittling him. They are encouraging him to commit suicide.
  2. A  larger group of individuals are making supportive comments and providing the number for a crisis help line.
  3. Many of his online followers have not responded to his post.

· Describe the impact of social context on conformity, obedience, and helping behaviors.

· Explain how social psychology theories or principles could be applied to account for each of the responses in the scenario (e.g., which principles/theories could explain response type A; which principles/theories could explain response type B, and so on). Be sure to support your assertions with scholarly content.

· Provide at least one recommendation to help reduce the derogatory comments or increase the number of supportive comments in the scenario, based on what you have learned about social psychology.

Describe how you would do a needs assessment to determine the need for such a program. Would you use quantitative or qualitative tools? Why?

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Imagine that you are working at an agency that serves victims of domestic violence. You have been asked by the agency’s clinical director to create a trauma-informed care therapy program for victims of domestic violence.

Write a 700-1,050-word essay describing the program you would want to create. Address the following in your essay:

  1. Describe how you would do a needs assessment to determine the need for such a program. Would you use quantitative or qualitative tools? Why?
  2. What tool would you use to measure the outcome of the program? Would you use a quantitative or a qualitative tool? Why?
  3. Research one trauma-informed care intervention you would recommend to the clinical director and evaluate its effectiveness. Discuss its validity and reliability as an intervention. Was the research conducted based on quantitative or qualitative measures?

Include a minimum of three scholarly resources in your essay.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA

Reinforcements

Developing interventions based on the information learned from a functional assessment is the next step in creating behavior change. For this discussion, you will begin to explore different interventions and the ways can be used. In your post, address the following:

  • Why is it important to use differential reinforcement in conjunction with antecedent control procedures when you want to increase a desirable behavior?
    • Provide an example not taken from your texts.

Choose one individual (focal animal) to watch for several minutes. After each 15 second interval (or your desired interval), put a mark under the behavior you observe the focal animal doing at that moment. 

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One of the most important techniques employed by ethologists (individuals that study animal behavior) is the observation of animal behavior. Observing animal behavior involves systematic recording of the activities of particular animals. To familiarize students with this common technique, each student will be required to complete a series of observations of an animal’s behavior. Each observation will consist of a detailed description of an animal’s behavior for at least 30 minutes (Observation 1) and 1 hour (Observation 2) over the course of several sessions. Record your observations in a digital journal (document). Any animal can be observed for these exercises.

· The same individual animal can be used for the 2 observations

· Domestic animals (dogs, cats, livestock, etc.) can be used for your observations

· Non-domestic captive animals (zoo animals, etc.) can be used for your observations

· Observation 1 must be at least 30 minutes long

· Observation 2 must be at least 1 hour long, over the course of several sessions (at least 2)

You will be using focal-animal sampling where the actions of a focal animal are observed and recorded during a prescribed time period.

Recording Behavioral Observations 

Your observations must include the following:

Date:

Location: be specific enough for me to find your location

Conditions: cloud cover, approximate temperature, moon phase (if observation occurs at night), wind speed, etc. (include anything that may influence or alter behavior)

Subject: species, include if subject is within a group or isolated

Sample frequency: e.g., every 30 seconds, 1 minute, etc. (This gives you time to write in your journal in between observations. For example, you choose to sample behavior every other minute. For one minute just observe, then the next minute you write your observations in your journal, then return to observing for a minute, then writing in your journal for a minute, and so on until you get 30 minutes of behavior. This would mean a total of an HOUR- 30 minutes of animal behavior observation, 30 minutes of writing observations in journal).

Description/name of behaviors: e.g., alert – animal sits up and scans area, grooming – animal cleans fur, aggressive – animal chases/bites others, greeting – animal smells others

Start time:

Stop time:

Summary: At the end of your journal, include a summary of your findings. Write down your observations, then, ask researchable questions about your animal’s behavior.  Avoid anthropomorphic questions/comments.

 

Behavior Chart 

• It may be useful to create a behavior chart

• You should include the behaviors on the list below (and may also include others that are not listed there e.g. sexual behaviors- see textbook for addition behaviors that can be observed)

• Write one behavior at the top of each of the seven columns below: resting/sleeping, eating/drinking, grooming, traveling, aggression, social interaction or not visible.

• Choose one individual (focal animal) to watch for several minutes. After each 15 second interval (or your desired interval), put a mark under the behavior you observe the focal animal doing at that moment.

• If you see any other behaviors you think are interesting or noteworthy, describe them in the “Behavior Notes” section.