Description
- Imagine situations in which interventions that may make sense scientifically would not be appropriate because of environmental factors.
- Think about how behavioral principles may be used inappropriately.
Post by Day 3: Explain why considering social validity of behaviors/interventions is important in selecting target behavior and developing an intervention.
Explanation & Answer
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1. INTRODUCTION
2. BODY
3. CONCLUSION
4. REFERENCE
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PSYCHOLOGY
Social Validity
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PSYCHOLOGY
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When Scientific Interventions Do Not Make Sense
Most environmental factors are viewed as external being that they come as phenomena that
cannot be directly controlled by scientists. Several things are currently unfolding in the entire globe
that amaze even the renowned scientists, for example; in weather forecasting the scientific
predictions in most cases fail to materialize after a lot of resources and experiments have been
conducted, and mark you, it is in this error that the best machines are deployed towards the same
(Duit, 2016). Rains can be predicted to be there at a given period of time yet they fail again when
the time reaches.
Similarly, there are considerations on the healthcare, a place believed to be containing only
the top cream of the global society, yet with the availed machines, skills and labor force there do
exist a lot errors than before....