Years of research as proven that the best interventions/treatments for children with autism need to be scientific in nature. This was no different with Reeve, Reeve, Townsend and Poulson (2007) in their intervention for children with autism to learn a new skills. In the research study presented, they were interested in teaching positive social behavior in the form of helping behavior. For this purpose of this paper, I’ll identify the independent variables, dependent variables and the extraneous variable that were associated with the study.
Dependent Variable, This is the targeted behavior of a treatment. The target behavior as according to Reeve, et., al (2007) were cleaning, replacing broke material, picking up objects, sorting materials, …show more content…
In other words behaviors that are not the study but can act as a distraction to the children. Other extraneous variable could be, for example, when the experimenter and children are working in the trial, a child make a squeaky sound that pull the attention away from the task or the sudden truck horn blown outside the window. For this study most of the extraneous variables may have presented itself the discriminative pieces. For example, when wiping the table, the sensory of the soapy water against a child’s finger, or the popping of the bubbles could be a distraction.
Upon observation of myself, I the tendency to get annoyed when, the kitchen sink is not emptied. I get real irritated to the point where I will shout. One of the antecedent I know is that if I see a cup on the coffee table, the possibility exists that there will be an unemptied sink. I did observe over time, that, whenever the children are running late for the school bus, whatever is in their hands, automatically head towards the coffee table (saw it with my own eyes). So, as a dutiful mother I would clean up after them before I leave for work and so say, there are stuff in the sink to be put away. Then I start to shout about the dirty sink, with no one around to respond to
Dependent Variable, This is the targeted behavior of a treatment. The target behavior as according to Reeve, et., al (2007) were cleaning, replacing broke material, picking up objects, sorting materials, …show more content…
In other words behaviors that are not the study but can act as a distraction to the children. Other extraneous variable could be, for example, when the experimenter and children are working in the trial, a child make a squeaky sound that pull the attention away from the task or the sudden truck horn blown outside the window. For this study most of the extraneous variables may have presented itself the discriminative pieces. For example, when wiping the table, the sensory of the soapy water against a child’s finger, or the popping of the bubbles could be a distraction.
Upon observation of myself, I the tendency to get annoyed when, the kitchen sink is not emptied. I get real irritated to the point where I will shout. One of the antecedent I know is that if I see a cup on the coffee table, the possibility exists that there will be an unemptied sink. I did observe over time, that, whenever the children are running late for the school bus, whatever is in their hands, automatically head towards the coffee table (saw it with my own eyes). So, as a dutiful mother I would clean up after them before I leave for work and so say, there are stuff in the sink to be put away. Then I start to shout about the dirty sink, with no one around to respond to