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ABA Designs To draw conclusions about the effectiveness of an experimental manipulation, the most critical component of the ABA design is the demonstration that

A) after condition B, condition A produces a return to the baseline level of responding.
B) behavior immediately changes at the start of a new phase.
C) performance remains steady across conditions A and B.
D) the effect of the experimental treatment continues after it is removed.

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Small N Designs The ____ used in a small N design is analogous to a control group in a two-group design.

A) baseline of behavior
B) block randomization
C) control group
D) treatment

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Small N Designs The ____ in a small N design measures behavior as it normally occurs without manipulation of the independent variable.

Small N Designs Skinner advocated

ABA Designs In Alex's small N design to train his Newfoundland dog Boatswain to stop chasing the neighbor's cat, each condition lasts one week. Week 1: Alex measures how often Boatswain chases the cat. Week 2: Alex squirts Boatswain with a water bottle whenever he chases The cat. Week 3: Alex measures how often Boatswain chases the cat. Week 4: Alex squirts Boatswain with a water bottle whenever he chases The cat. During which week should Alex see a rebound in Boatswain's cat chasing?

Small N Designs In clinical psychopathology research, small N designs help solve the ethical dilemma of

ABA Designs The Miller and Kelley (1994) study used goal setting and contingencies to improve the homework performance of two boys and two girls.Which design was used to demonstrate that improved homework performance was due to goal setting and contingencies?

ABA Designs Identify the treatment(s) in an ABACAD design.

Small N Designs Researchers who favor the small N approach argue that large N studies

ABA Designs How many different experimental manipulations did Jones and Friman (1999) incorporate in their A-B-BC-A-BC study of insect phobia?

ABA Designs Researchers may use the ABA format only if

Multiple Baseline Design Shane was tired of cleaning up Bill and Ted's dishes.He implemented the following study to modify their behavior. Week 1: count the number of dishes each roommate left in the sink Week 2: fine Bill one cigarette per dish Week 3: fine Bill one cigarette per dish Week 4: fine Bill one cigarette per dish; fine Ted one cigarette per dish Which design did Shane use?

Statistics and Variability in Small N Designs Researchers can analyze small N experiments using inferential tests if there are at least ___ measurements for each baseline and treatment condition.

ABA Designs The Jones and Friman (1999) study of insect phobia employed an A-B-BC-A-BC design.The experiment ended with BC to

Small N Designs Large N studies of how people learn to pronounce foreign vowels aggregate data over groups of subjects.Pooled learning data can

When to Use Large N and Small N Designs Many researchers prefer large N designs over small N designs because large N studies

Discrete Trials Designs What does a discrete trials design use in place of a baseline condition?

ABA Designs The use of the ABA design to test more than one experimental condition requires that we

Statistics and Variability in Small N Designs Researchers generally do not use statistical tests to evaluate the results of small N experiments because

When to Use Large N and Small N Designs Watanabe, Sakamoto, and Wakita (1995) used a special form of the ____ design to demonstrate that pigeons could discriminate between paintings by Monet and Picasso.