Assignment:
1. In your own words, provide a description of all the experimental procedures used in the study.
2. What were the dependent variables examined in the study, specifying the dimension of behavior the authors used?
3. Did the authors collect any follow-up or maintenance data? If so, did the results maintain over time? How do you know?
4. Were any reliability measures gathered? If so, for which behaviors? For how much of the data was reliability collected? What were the ranges?
5. Was this a socially valid procedure? Why or why not? (Consider habilitation and how the individual's life was improved).
6. List any of study's limitations.
Readings:
Extinction of self-injurious escape behavior with and without instructional fading
By Jennifer r. Zarcone and brlan a. Iwata