Psyc 4790 Hesse
Project Presentation and Paper Guidelines
Plan to present your self-change project orally in class and write a paper to be turned in after
you give your presentation. Be sure to demonstrate your competence with the technical
terms and concepts learned from the text and lecture by using them correctly and
appropriately in both your presentation and your paper. Review your returned homework
assignments for some of this information. Follow APA heading and writing style guidelines.
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The oral presentation must be accompanied by visual material that the class can read from the
back of the room (overheads or PowerPoint). The oral presentation should contain all the main
sections of the paper but presented in a format suited for listeners (don’t just put your paper on
overheads and read it to the class but instead highlight the main points with visual materials and
talk from these main points).
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The written paper should be double spaced in 12 point, easily readable font. Include a title page
with your project title, your name and class ID centered on the page and number each page in
the upper right corner (except the title page). Include the following sections with each section
labeled with the appropriate heading (except the first section, use your title instead of the word
“introduction”). Attach the paper grade form as the last page of your paper.
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Introduction: Describe the target behavior of your self-change project and give any
relevant history about this behavior, why you wanted to change it now, why it is
important, etc.
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Goals: Include any long-term goals and any sub goals that must be met to enable
meeting the long-term goals. Include the data you are using to decide if these goals are
being met or not.
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Methods: Describe the techniques you are using to change the targeted behavior. Be
sure to say if you controlled the antecedents (Chapter 5), and/or developed new or
incompatible behaviors (Chapter 6), and/or rearranged consequences (Chapter 7). State
your rules (behaviors in specific situations) as they relate to your goals and/or sub goals.
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Measurement: List the targeted goal behaviors in terms of how you measured and
quantified them. Describe your data collection methods, what dimension of the
behavior you measured (frequency, latency, duration, intensity, etc.) and say how this
dimension is important to your goals.
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Results (your graph): Summarize the data from your measured target behaviors related
to your goals. Identify any trends in the data.
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Analysis: Provide a written interpretation of your graph. Do you think you have been
successful based on what you see from your data? Interpret your graph by describing
any trends in the data, and say what these might mean. What will the data look like in
the next two months if these trends continue?
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Conclusion: What did you learn from this project about behavior change? What did you
learn about yourself? What will you do the next time you want to change your
behavior?
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If you used any references include them on a separate References page.
Psyc 4790 Hesse
Project Presentation and Paper Guidelines
Paper feedback and Grade Form (attach as last page of paper)
Content Areas
Project title and presenter name clearly displayed
OK
weak
Introduction: target behavior described, why you
want to change it now, why it is important
Goals: long-term goals, any sub goals that must be
met to enable meeting the long-term goals. State
your rules (behaviors in specific situations) as they
relate to your goals and/or sub goals.
Methods: Change techniques used (change
antecedents and/or develop new or incompatible
behaviors and/or rearrange consequences)
Measurement: data collection methods, what
dimension of the behavior was measured and why.
Results (your graph): Baseline and intervention.
Analysis: Interpret trends and say what they might
mean.
Conclusion: What did you learn from this project
about behavior change? What did you learn about
yourself? What have you gained from this class?
Used technical terms and concepts from text and
lecture appropriately and correctly
Writing (grammar, syntax, and sentence structure
and paragraph organization).
Paper was clear, organized, interesting and
complete.
Comments:
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Points earned / Points possible