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.