Fred has noticed that when Ricky ends a rant, he typically pauses for three or four minutes then resumes ranting. He decided to introduce a self-calming activity during the pause to try to eliminate the repetitive rants or at least extend the amount of time between iterations. To assess effectiveness, he would need to collect data.

Inter-response time

Explanation:

The 3 Dimensional Quantities of Measurement includes

1. Repeatability- includes; count, rate/frequency, celeration

2. Temporal Extent- includes duration

3. Temporal Locus- includes response latency, interresponse time (IRT)

Temporal Locus

This is simply known as the point in time at which a behavior is said to occur. It includes responce latency and interresponse time.

Interresponce Time (IRT)

This is simply defined as the rate or.amount of time that goes by or occur between 2 consecutive occurences of a response class. Its main goal and focus is to measures time between two successive responses.

The advantage of this measure is that it is in line that is it correlates with rate (the longer IRT the slower the rate, the shorter the IRT the faster the rate)

While the disadvantage to IRT is that the second response must hapoen within the observation tims or session or the data would not be needed anymore.

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