A person is asked to make his bed. His caregiver checks 30 minutes later and the bed was made. No one else was present during that time. The caregiver records that the client made his bed even though he did not observe the behavior directly. The data collection method used is:

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A person is asked to make his bed.  His caregiver checks 30 minutes later and the bed was made.  No one else was present during that time.  The caregiver records that the client made his bed even though he did not observe the behavior directly.  The data collection method used is:

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The data collection method used in this scenario is permanent product recording, which involves observing the outcome or end result of a behavior, rather than directly observing the behavior itself. In this case, the caregiver observed that the bed had been made, which serves as a permanent product of the behavior of making the bed. The other options (duration recording, whole-interval recording, and latency recording) are all types of direct observation methods that involve observing the behavior as it occurs, which is not the case in this scenario.

A Person Is Asked to Make His Bed