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Read the following chapter, focusing on the ABA study reported on pp. 125-129 (i.e., Practice Drawing on Operant Learning Principles--the intervention on safety belt use). The chapter is posted in the course library found on the Bb site.
Thyer, B. A., Thyer, K. B., & Massa, S. (1991). Behavioral analysis and therapy in the field of gerontology. In P. K. H. Kim (Ed.), Serving the elderly: Skills for practice. (pp. 117-135). New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Answer the following questions about it:
1. What was the issue/problem being addressed?
2. What was the outcome measure? How was reliability determined and what was found? Is this satisfactory, for evaluation purposes?
3. What was the intervention? Do you believe it to be adequately operationalized, so that other could replicate the essential features of the intervention?
4. What were the results?
5. How credible are the authors’ conclusions that the intervention caused the observed changes? Explain you answer.
6. What makes this an ‘experimental’ study, in the parlance of SSDs?
7. How could this study have been improved?
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ABA study- Evaluation of Social Work
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Question 1
The ABA study report attempts to address a wide range of issues and concerns.
Increasing independence and trying to promote social contacts among the elderly, trying to
improve social welfare skills, reducing urinary disruption, promoting social care skills,
promoting reasonable speech among dementia parents, and reducing depression and
hallucinations are just a few of the detailed case examples and problem areas being addressed (
Thyer et al., 1991).
Question 2
The study was a community-based investigation into the efficacy of one operant process
known as prompting as a tactic to encourage elderly drivers to use their seat belts. Despite the
importance of motor vehicle fatalities, no study...
