Layne Is Trying to Watch Less Television

question 35

Essay

Layne is trying to watch less television. Her friend Ryan is a psychologist who agrees to help her. He creates a treatment plan that involves giving Layne $5 for every day that she watches fewer than 90 minutes of television. He monitors her television watching for 3 days, treats her for 3 days and monitors her, and then just monitors her for 3 more days.
What type of design is Ryan using to change Layne's behavior? Name a threat to internal validity that this design is well suited to address.

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Definitions:

Negative Checks

Mechanisms that decrease a population's size, such as disease, famine, or war, as described in Malthusian theory.

Armed Conflict

A conflict involving the use of armed forces between two or more parties, typically countries or groups within a country.

Industrialization

The process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods, leading to technological innovation and changes in society.

Natural Forces

Natural forces refer to the fundamental phenomena or energies inherent in the natural world, such as gravity, electromagnetism, and the forces driving climate and geological changes.