Exam 10: Steady States and Transitions

If you repeatedly exposed each subject to a condition in an effort to control or eliminate extraneous influences and allow the condition to fully represent its effects on behavior, you would be using:

If a researcher is measuring the duration of a target behavior and achieves a steady state of responding, they can then conclude what about the frequency of that target behavior?

If data show that responding is unstable under either the baseline condition or the treatment condition, the investigator should assume that these variations must be due to:

How long should each phase of an experiment last?

When comparing the responding in the two phases depicted in the figure below, the proper interpretation of the second phase would be:

A ______ is a repeating pattern of local variability, often involving sequences of increasing and decreasing trends (in either order).

Why is the graphical approach to determining steady state considered the "Supreme Court Standard" versus the statistical method?

What is the difference between trend and range of data?

Explain how the steady state strategy facilitates comparisons of responding under different conditions.

The steady-state strategy is valuable for all of the following reasons, except:

Why is it important to distinguish between transition and transitory states?

What does stable responding say about the environmental conditions under which it occurred?

How do repeated observations of a participants' responding assess the risk of extraneous variables?

A pattern of responding involving change from one steady state to a different steady state is called a .

What is the major consideration of all investigators that is at the core of the steady state strategy?

Identifying transition and transitory states is a matter of:

By giving a participant repeated exposure first to the baseline condition and then to the intervention condition, the researcher is trying to get a graphical picture of responding under each condition that is ______ and ______.

______ is a measure of variability defined by the highest and lowest values in a data set.

A pattern of responding that shows relatively little variation in its measured dimensional quantities over some period of time is known as a ______.

Describe the value of the steady-state strategy for both researchers and practitioners. Also, how do their different interests impact steady state strategy?