Characteristics

Code:

A-CA-mi-tsb-v-*-a

Focus:

Affect: Cheerful Appearance (A-CA)

Time frame:

last instant (mi)

Mode:

time sampling of happy behaviors (tsb)

Scale Type:

verbal scale (v)

Scale Range:

0

Description

Time sampling of happy behaviors:

Researchers observed the baby's in the home.
One observation of one second was made every fifteenth second. Any positively voiced sound as observed by the researcher counted as a happy vocal and any negatively voiced sound counted as a unhappy vocal.