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1.6 Baseline vs. Intervention Example
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So let’s say that I want to see what happens when I spray my cat with water after she scratches the couch. Right now, every time she scratches the couch, I yell at her. So the baseline phase in this example is yelling. I want to test the effects of spraying her with water, so that is the intervention.
Look at the behavior under different conditions:
Baseline
What you’re currently doing; the treatment is NOT implemented
Intervention
The treatment that you want to test
Isn’t the cat the subject in this case? Wouldn’t baseline be the cat’s behaviour of scratching the couch? Wouldn’t yelling be an unsuccessful intervention and then spraying the cat be a different intervention?
I believe that the subject is the behavior of scratching the couch and that yelling is the baseline because that is currently how they are dealing with said behavior.
Wouldnt the treatment of spraying the cat with water cause negative reinforcement and possible cause the cat to become afraid of its owner instead of teaching the cat a positive response/ behavior.
It is interesting case study. In my personally idea, yelling which the baseline, spraying the intervention, both theoretically speaking what it is or explaining what the example or behavior meaning, however, those behaviors do not positively do the problem solving.
Trying to stop the cat from sctratching her couch, she yells at her cat, which is the baseline-current problem solving method. Intervention treatment would be spraying water to the cat.