psyNet 2013 (Beta)Automatic Graphing and FBA

procedures

SFASU School PsychologyPh.D. Program

Behavioral Software Design Systems

Sometimes [not often] procrastination

can work to your advantage.

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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FBA and basic recording of target behaviorspsyNet16 is tethered to Splashtop for

Androids and iPhones

Make a new folder named “Data” inside of Public

If you are running XP,make a Public folder

If you are running Windows 7,the Public folder already exists

in this location [i.e., inside of Users]

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

The FBA alone required about three weeks to complete

Stacked FBA Noncontingent Contingent NonContingent Attention Attention Attention

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EXCEL work sheet following an FBA session

Just one session

Hit F11 to obtain a very basic 2D illustration of one session

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EXCEL work sheet with a series of data sessions inserted

After completing several sessions

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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

Stacking Bars for FBA

2 D stacking

3 D stacking

adjacent bars by arranged by condition

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

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

Everything you ever wanted to know about

Alan and Betty

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

Office 10 isfairly

intuitive

Enter data for the

Baseline Phase

Fairly close to the same

move

Same as Excel 2003

Enter data for second

phase.

Note: data is not

entered into same column as Baseline

data

Go to Home Chart Tools Move Chart

Each session provides a data point

From Insert, be sure you have clicked on the chart

Rightclick on

axisto

set at100 and

changefont

Next week, everybody make a few samples on Excel and PPT for show

and tell.“DO YOU UNDERSTAND?”

That’s all buckaroos