Exam 5: Dimensions of Behavior and Units of Measurement

When selecting dimensional quantities to measure, a researcher or practitioner should take into consideration each of the following, except:

Each of the following statements describe why it is important to carefully select dimensions of behavior for measurement, except:

How is celeration related to frequency?

Give an example of a target behavior that would have important topographical dimensions to measure in order to describe the effect of some treatment on that behavior. Describe both the target behavior and the topographical features to measure.

What is the relationship between celeration and frequency?

Distinguish between event-response latency and interresponse time

Describe the dimension of event-response latency and give an example of a hypothetical study where latency would be an important measure to record.

What is the overall goal of selecting dimensions of behavior to measure?

The most common approach to calculating rate or frequency is to divide total count by

List and describe the choices of dimensions researchers and practitioners can consider for individual responses.

A dimensionless ratio is a unitless number that results from calculations whose components share the same:

When selecting dimensions of behavior to measure, the measures should be guided by each of the following, except:

Dimensional measurement involves:

How are researchers or practitioners most likely to capture whatever changes in the target behavior might be interesting or important?

Lisa is a practitioner working with a child who has difficulty transitioning from one activity to the next. She is interested in improving the child's delay between being told to switch activities and starting the next activity. Which of the following dimensions would be most important for her to measure?

When calculating frequency, it may be important to consider if those values reflect how often the behavior occurred when responding was possible. Why is that?

Each of the following are dimensions of multiple responses, except:

Describe what this statement means: "As a rule, we should always describe changes in responding in terms of dimensions that were actually measured?"

To calculate the frequency of responding, researchers can divide the total count of responses by each of the following, except:

While ratios are valuable ways of looking at data, they can be limiting. In what way can a ratio be limiting?