psyNet 2013 (Beta) Automatic Graphing and FBA procedures

1. psyNet 2013 (Beta)Automatic Graphing and FBA procedures SFASU School PsychologyPh.D. Program Behavioral Software Design Systems Chris Ninness

2. Sometimes [not often] procrastination can work to your advantage.

3. Single-Subject and Group designs • Since the beginning, behavior analysts have been suspicious about experimental outcomes that are predicated on the assumptions of conventional/classical statistics. • Single-subject designs allow the researcher to visually inspect graphical illustrations of behavior and determine the extent to which functional control of the independent variable has been established. The determination of functional control does not rely on underlying assumptions such as homogeneity of variance, homoscedasticity, linearity, or random and independent sampling. In the world of single-subject design, such underlying assumptions make no sense whatsoever. Single-subject allow us to determine if a treatment has had an effect and single-subjects designs allow us to suggest the extent to which our outcomes will have similar influences on similar populations in the future. This is the basis of functional behavior assessment. As a practical matter, the same should be true of the analysis of group behavior by way of group design. • Consider the type of data analysis used by climatologists. Is it likely that modern predictions of weather or climate rely on the assumptions of classical statistics and employed by traditional psychologists?

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13. Make a new folder named “Data” inside of Public If you are running Windows 7,the Public folder already existsin this location [i.e., inside of Users] If you are running XP,make a Public folder

14. Place a “shortcut” to this folder named “Data” on your desktop Note: This must be a “shortcut” to the Data folder [see arrow]. The actual “data folder: remains inside of the Public folder.Now all output can be saved with just one click

16. The FBA alone required about three weeks to complete

18. Stacked FBA Noncontingent Contingent NonContingent Attention AttentionAttention

19. EXCEL worksheet following an FBA session Just one session

20. Hit F11to obtain a very basic2D illustration of one session

21. EXCEL worksheet with a series of data sessions inserted After completing several sessions

22. Only four sessions here – five or six would be way better Adjacent bars by arranged by condition in 3D: Not APA but interesting for posters

23. Stacking Bars for FBA adjacent bars by arranged by condition 2 D stacking 3 D stacking

24. Stacking Bars for FBA in 3D: Not APA but interesting I would only use for posters and ARD meetings Stacking Bars for FBA in 3D

25. After your bar graph, just go to Home > Layout > Shapes > Line

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33. Functional but what's wrong with this picture?

36. Eleven intervals in which the target behavior occurred 5 times = 45.45% of the observed intervals for this session

37. Office 10 isfairly intuitive Enter data for the Baseline Phase Fairly close to the same move

38. Same as Excel 2003 Enter data for second phase. Note: data is not entered into same column as Baseline data

39. Go to Home Chart Tools Move Chart

40. Each session provides a data point

42. From Insert, be sure you have clicked on the chart Rightclick onaxisto set at100 andchangefont

43. Next week, everybody make a few samples on Excel and PPT for show and tell.“DO YOU UNDERSTAND?”

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