Mastery Test
Observing and Describing Behavior

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Behavior refers to an organisms:	Movements	Intentions	Emotions	Goals
Pick an example of a behavior:	Planning	Feeling	Talking	Deciding
Consider the statement, "Jack spent his whole day fooling around." What would be a more measurable way of describing Jack's behavior?:	Ask Jack to describe his behavior	Count the amount of times Jack played computer games	Explain why Jack spent the day in this way	Describe how Jack spent his time.
What is an "inferred mental state?"	Observable behavior caused by an emotion	Saying that a person engages in a behavior because of observable mental conditions	An emotional illness	Saying that a person engages in a behavior because of something going on in his mind
Frequency, Latency, Duration, and Intensity are all:	Behaviors	Aspects of behavior that can be measured	Complex and difficult to measure	Found only in sports behavior
An example of latency would be:	How fast a student responds after a question is asked	How fast a student completes all of the answers in a test	How many answers a student gets correct on a test	How long a tantrum lasts
In behavior analysis, graphs are usually displays of (choose the best answer):	Behaviors	The form of a behavior	Repeated measures of a behavior	Why behavior occurs.
An purpose for graphing would be:	Helping to detect trends in the data	Looking at the values of a number of data points at the same time	Comparing data from one time period to another	All of the answers given