Humanities Homework Help

Relevant learning often means effective learning. Often the best way to learn is to relate lessons to something personal. For example, history students can often relate historical lessons to experiences shared by their ancestors. Learners of new languages often first learn phrases they tend to use most often in their native language.

Similarly, applying behavioral analysis lessons to your own behavior can provide helpful insight. For this assignment, you will select a personal behavior or one you have personally observed. You will then identify an intervention and develop a research design to evaluate that intervention.

• Select a behavior from your own life—or from someone with whom you have a great deal of knowledge about their behavior. This behavior should be one for which an intervention could be developed.
• Develop an ABAB design to test the effectiveness of this hypothetical intervention:
  • Operationally define the behavior.
  • Describe how you would conduct a baseline.
  • Explain considerations you need to effectively conduct the intervention, including when to end the intervention and return to baseline phase. (Note: You do not need to develop an actual intervention.)
  • Identify any other considerations you need to make to conduct the second A and B phases.
  • Is an ABAB design the best design to use with this behavior? Why, or why not?