Read the following chapter, focusing on the ABA study reported on pp. 125-129 (i.e., Practice Drawing on Operant Learning Principles–the intervention on safety belt use). The chapter is posted in the course library found on the Bb site.
Thyer, B. A., Thyer, K. B., & Massa, S. (1991). Behavioral analysis and therapy in the field of gerontology. In P. K. H. Kim (Ed.), Serving the elderly: Skills for practice. (pp. 117-135). New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Answer the following questions about it:
1. What was the issue/problem being addressed?
2. What was the outcome measure? How was reliability determined and what was found? Is this satisfactory, for evaluation purposes?
3. What was the intervention? Do you believe it to be adequately operationalized, so that other could replicate the essential features of the intervention?
4. What were the results?
5. How credible are the authors’ conclusions that the intervention caused the observed changes? Explain you answer.
6. What makes this an ‘experimental’ study, in the parlance of SSDs?
7. How could this study have been improved?
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