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OBSERVER TRAINING REVISITED: A COMPARISON OF IN VIVO AND VIDEO INSTRUCTION
Author(s) -
Dempsey Carrie M.,
Iwata Brian A.,
Fritz Jennifer N.,
Rolider Natalie U.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.2012.45-827
Subject(s) - psychology , observational study , training (meteorology) , observer (physics) , video feedback , video recording , test (biology) , medical education , applied psychology , multimedia , computer science , medicine , paleontology , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , meteorology , optics , biology
We compared the effects of 2 observer‐training procedures. In vivo training involved practice during actual treatment sessions. Video training involved practice while watching progressively more complex simulations. Fifty‐nine undergraduate students entered 1 of the 2 training conditions sequentially according to an ABABAB design. Results showed that the 2 training methods produced almost identical scores on a posttraining observational test; however, the video method required fewer training sessions to complete.