Which of the following is true of checklists?
A. checklists have been praised for having a high interrater reliability.
B. checklists may miss behaviors.
C. checklists are objective observation tools.
D. checklists evaluate the degree or frequency of a behavior.
Ques. 2When questioning the percent of a time that a student participates in a long, sustained activity, which of the following observation methods would be the most appropriate to use?
A. duration recording.
B. frequency recording.
C. interval recording.
D. latency recording.
Ques. 3A teacher asked the class to complete all the examples on page 111 in the textbook. It took Juan four minutes to open his book and find the correct page; then it took Juan two more minutes to begin working on the examples. The teacher claims that it always takes Juan too much time to begin his independent work. Which recording method would be best to monitor this behavior?
A. magnitude recording.
B. latency recording.
C. duration recording.
D. interval recording.
Ques. 4When analyzing data obtained in duration recordings, one could
A. calculate a mode and percentile.
B. calculate average length of the behavior.
C. determine total number of tallies.
D. all of the above.
Ques. 5Event recording is especially useful when
A. collecting data on behaviors that are not easily defined.
B. collecting data on behaviors that occur very frequently or very infrequently.
C. collecting data on the length of the behaviors.
D. all of the above.
Ques. 6This occurs when a previously reinforced behavior is no longer reinforced:
a. reinforcement fall-out
b. corporal punishment
c. extinction
d. response cost
Ques. 7Which measure could a teacher use to collect information about a student's disruptive behavior?
A. latency recording.
B. duration recording.
C. interval recording.
D. event recording.