This is your final report and should be written as a research manuscript.
Begin with your title, name, and affiliation on the title page. That is followed by a short introduction discussing what behavior(s) you wanted to change and why. You will describe the ineffective natural contingencies (why should you be engaging in the behaviors and why is that not effective? What were barriers/challenges that kept you from engaging in the behavior) and competing contingencies (what other activities interfered with you being able to engage in the behaviors?) that had prevented you or limited you in doing the behavior of interest.
Next is a method section where you describe your contingencies and the plan that you followed (e.g., what your reinforcers were and the schedule for delivering those; what punishers you may have used, etc.). If you had made any recycling changes, be sure to include them in this section and you can explain why you needed to make changes. Be sure to provide specific details of your intervention plan.
Next is the results section. For this report, you need to include your final graph (includes final weeks of data ). It should contain both your baseline and intervention data; you should have a phase change line indicating where baseline ends and where intervention begins. If you had any return to baseline data, you should include that as well. The results should also include a verbal depiction of what the graph is showing.
Finally, you will have a discussion section wherein you write about your results. Did you have successes? What challenges did you face? You can discuss your thoughts on the project, if you found it useful and/or plan to use these techniques in the future. Include references on a references page if you choose to include any sources to back up a reason why you chose your behavior (e.g., articles noting the importance of water consumption, exercise, healthy diet, etc.).
Be sure to include headings, page numbers, and to follow APA style.
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