Tantrum Behavior Research Paper

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1. Author: Yatta Pewa 2. Title: Eliminating tantrum behavior in a toddler 3. Participant(s) and setting: The participant of this study is an African American, aged 2.6 years old boy named M (fictitious character). M has a mental aged of five years 4 years old and he is from a middle class family with both parents with masters degrees. The setting for this study would be across all setting with exclusion of M’s daycare. 4. Behavioral definition (only): Tantrum: any instance or attempt M is shouting, whining, throwing things, and slamming doors, crying that accompanied by facial contraction with or without tears for any given period, screaming with occurrence of verbalization above normal conversational volume for ant period of time or …show more content…

Social significance of the target behavior: Tantrum is a behavior that is attention maintained and it is use as attempt to get attention or manipulate a situation. 6. Measurement system (include session length): Frequency will be used to record the number of times the tantrum occurs during a particular time period and timer will be used to measure the duration, how long the tantrums lasted. There will be three sessions a day 10 minutes each with a total of 30 minutes a day. The sessions will be spaced out throughout the day.

7. Reliability (include IOA procedures, formula, computations); Each session will last for 10 min. Interobsever reliability will calculated on interval-interval basis by dividing the total number of agreements between the two observers (mom & dad) for occurrence and nonoccurrence of the targeted behavior by the number of agreements plus disagreements and multiply it by 100. 8. Procedures Baseline: During baseline, all tantrum behavior will be reinforced and attention will be given to M. M will also get access attention or escape a demand. Mom and dad will also record the situations in which M engages in tantrum behavior. Whenever M engages in tantrum, dad or mom will say to M, “come here, what you want, you don’t have to do that.” Mom or dad will record tantrum frequency and duration data. Baseline data will be recorded for 7

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