[U4Q] Van, a BCBA, provides consulting services for a musici…
Van, a BCBA, provides consulting services for a musician to help her improve her chord accuracy when playing the guitar. Van uses a handheld clicker to measure the number of times the musician presses incorrect chords. He then uses a shaping procedure to determine its effect on the number of times the musician presses incorrect chords. The musician suspects the new strings that she recently added to her guitar are responsible for the change in her performance. However, Van believes the handheld clicker he has been using is not counting all of the times he presses the device and could be affecting the count. Which of the following is the dependent variable in this scenario?