This cumulative assignment allows you to consider everything you have learned over the past 5 weeks in an attempt to change a behavior of your own. This overall process is similar to what a board-certified behavior analyst would compete with a new client.

Refer to the approved behavior you would like to change, based on your submission to your instructor in Week 3.

Track baseline data over a 3-day period, using the Baseline Data Worksheet.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper that outlines an intervention plan for changing that behavior, in which you discuss the following:

• Describe the target behavior – The target behavior would be my sleeping pattern. For years I worked the same position and the same hours it never changed so my sleep pattern was ok.. Then I got promotes and now my hours fluctuate and my sleep pattern is everywhere half the time I don’t sleep .
• Outline the dimensions of measurement/baseline measurement.
• Describe the function of the baseline behavior.
• Outline the goals of the behavioral change.
• Propose a behavior intervention plan based on goals.
  • Provide a minimum of 2 antecedent changes.
  • Provide 4 to 5 consequence modifications. Choose consequences based on at least four of the following: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, negative punishment, positive punishment, and extinction.
• Describe any potential barriers to treatment, as well as how you would overcome these barriers.
• Describe the expected outcome if the behavior intervention plan was implemented and followed.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Submit your Baseline Data Worksheet along with your paper.

Answer preview

For our bodies to be in good health and function properly, we need sleep.  We are programmed to sleep every night so that we can be able to restore our minds and bodies back to the state where they can be able to serve us effectively.  Our bodies have internal clocks which regulate when we sleep and when we wake up based on how long we have been awake and the regular timing of our sleep.  As human beings, we have an internal clock that is located in our brain, and when it decides that it is time to sleep, it influences the other body functions as it prepares the body to sleep and the reverse when it is time to wake up…