Human Behavioral Assignment
Interval Coding
How many time Sophia drank from her blue water bottle.
Times:
Minute:
1: Yes
2: No
3: No
4: Yes
5: Yes
6: No
7: No
8: No
9: No
10: No
11: Yes
12: No
13: Yes
14: No
15: No
16: No
17: No
18: No
19: Yes
20: Yes
21: Yes
22: No
23: No
24: No
25: No
26: No
27: No
28: Yes
29: No, but drank gatorade
30: No
31: No
32: Yes
33: No
34: No
35: No
36: No
37: No
38: No
39: No
40: Yes
41: Yes
42: Yes
43: No
44: No
45: Yes
46: No
47: No
48: No
49: No
50: Yes
51: No
52: No
53: No
54: No
55: Yes
56: No
57: Yes
58: No
59: No
60: No
The Behavioral method I chose was partial interval coding. This is when I record when a behavior occurs at any point during the intervals I've broken the hour down into. In this case, I chose to do 1 minute intervals and record when Sophia drank from her blue water bottle while we were in our room. This would include Sophia picking her water bottle up and swallowing the water inside. A strength of this method is that it is very easy to organize and read the data. However, it is a weak method when it comes to knowing the exact time the behavior occurred within the 1 minute intervals, as well as how many times the behavior occurred within the interval.