Exam 13: Multiple Baseline Designs

In all multiple baseline designs, it is important to:

The length of overlap in a multiple baseline design should be long enough to allow for effects of _______ to emerge in the control phase.

Why is it important for both researchers and practitioners to evaluate for extraneous variables?

Each of the following are different forms of multiple baseline designs, except:

Why should an investigator be clear to others about a design being nonconcurrent if that's the type of design used in an investigation?

In a multiple baseline design, why should you temporally stagger the introduction of the treatment phase in the second baseline relative to its introduction in the first baseline?

Why must a multiple baseline design allow extraneous variables that might be operating in one baseline to impact the other baseline?

Is there a minimum number of data points to overlap when staggering a treatment condition?

List the five requirements for making comparisons across baselines in concurrent multiple baseline designs. Explain the rationale for each requirement.

Describe how you would implement a multiple baseline design to evaluate the effects of a token board for on-task academic engagement in different math and reading classes for a child in a school.

A behavior analyst is interested in using a multiple baseline design to evaluate the effects of a of a time out procedure for multiple children with a history of aggression in a classroom. Based on this information, the behavior analyst should use the multiple baseline across _____ design.

Multiple baseline designs use two or more baselines in a coordinated way to allow _________ comparisons within and across baselines.

Compared to a concurrent multiple baseline, a nonconcurrent multiple baseline design ____.

A behavior analyst is interested in using a multiple baseline design to evaluate the effects of praise and prompting for a child learning different types of signs in sign language. Based on this information, the behavior analyst should use the multiple baseline across _____ design.

If using a nonconcurrent baseline design, investigators should be clear that baselines are not concurrent so that data are not ________.

Describe how you would implement a multiple baseline design to evaluate the effects of a time out procedure for multiple children with a history of aggression in a classroom.

When conducting experiments and implementing research designs why is it best to be flexible?

Each of the following are requirements for concurrent multiple baseline designs except:

Describe how a multiple baseline across settings design is arranged.

The main difference between single and multiple baseline designs is that multiple baseline designs _______.