1.12 Implement the Intervention
I want to see what happens when I spray her with water. This is the treatment, or the intervention. So instead of yelling at her, I start spraying her with water whenever she scratches the couch.
Basic Steps
Measure the behavior repeatedly in the baseline phase.
Implement the intervention and measure the behavior repeatedly in the intervention phase.
GRAPH the data and use VISUAL ANALYSIS to decide if the intervention caused a change in the behavior.
Spraying water is generally considered a good punishment stimulus for cats because it is immediate and therefore has a stronger effect on their behaviour. Unfortunately, cats do not respond quickly to the most common reward stimulus, treats, as immediately as dogs. Furthermore, maybe it is my lack of knowledge, but I fail to think how a reward stimulus would be applied to lower a behavioural excess with animals.