(Do not begin this project until the third month of your internship)
Select one of your own behaviors. It is a good idea to select something which
is giving you a bit of a problem. It should be something which needs to be increased
or decreased. It needs to be something which can be counted or timed easily.
Write up a behavioral definition of the behavior. Decide how you will count or measure the behavior's occurrence. Decide how often you will count or measure this. Write down these rules.
Take baseline on yourself for at least ten days out of a two week period. Write down the information immediately. Do not attempt to rely on your memory.
When you have finished the ten days of baseline, make a graph of those ten days.
Decide on an appropriate reinforcement which you can earn by changing this behavior. Contingently administer the reinforcement for at least ten days, write down the rates of the behavior for those ten days, and make a graph.
Return to baseline for three days.
Turn in
(a) the behavioral definition,
(b) the rules you set up,
(c) your assessment of how well you conformed to your rules,
(d) the graphs, and
(e) your interpretation of what, on the whole, you observed/learned about yourself.
This may be presented in an outline format.