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A METHOD TO INTEGRATE DESCRIPTIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL FIELD STUDIES AT THE LEVEL OF DATA AND EMPIRICAL CONCEPTS1

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, February 2013
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Title
A METHOD TO INTEGRATE DESCRIPTIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL FIELD STUDIES AT THE LEVEL OF DATA AND EMPIRICAL CONCEPTS1
Published in
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, February 2013
DOI 10.1901/jaba.1968.1-175
Pubmed ID
Authors

Sidney W. Bijou, Robert F. Peterson, Marion H. Ault

Abstract

It is the thesis of this paper that data from descriptive and experimental field studies can be interrelated at the level of data and empirical concepts if both sets are derived from frequency-of-occurrence measures. The methodology proposed for a descriptive field study is predicated on three assumptions: (1) The primary data of psychology are the observable interactions of a biological organism and environmental events, past and present. (2) Theoretical concepts and laws are derived from empirical concepts and laws, which in turn are derived from the raw data. (3) Descriptive field studies describe interactions between behavioral and environmental events; experimental field studies provide information on their functional relationships. The ingredients of a descriptive field investigation using frequency measures consist of: (1) specifying in objective terms the situation in which the study is conducted, (2) defining and recording behavioral and environmental events in observable terms, and (3) measuring observer reliability. Field descriptive studies following the procedures suggested here would reveal interesting new relationships in the usual ecological settings and would also provide provocative cues for experimental studies. On the other hand, field-experimental studies using frequency measures would probably yield findings that would suggest the need for describing new interactions in specific natural situations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 3 2%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Australia 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Unknown 132 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 14%
Other 10 7%
Researcher 10 7%
Other 24 17%
Unknown 27 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 67 48%
Social Sciences 19 14%
Computer Science 5 4%
Environmental Science 3 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 1%
Other 15 11%
Unknown 28 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 April 2016.
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#7,939,119
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#496
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#63,981
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
#197
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