Multiple Tracking and the Reactivity of Monitoring a Single Behavior: Smoking
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Authors
Whitaker, Keith
Issue Date
1977
Type
Thesis
Language
en
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Abstract
The reactivity of self-monitoring appears to be influenced by a wide variety of variables. The present study examined one of these variables--the number of behaviors self-monitored or multiple tracking. Seven groups of two subjects each were observed over a one-day twelve-hour period of three four-hour phases: baseline, treatment (self-monitoring), and recovery. One target behavior--smoking--was the dependent behavior. Three treatments were combined in all possible combinations (seven) and one combination was assigned to each group to monitor during the treatment phase. Results showed no statistical difference between treatment groups. An interference was found and one subject did not record his personal events as instructed, hence a confusion of events to be monitored was found when monitoring three personal events.