Exam 12: Using Single-Subject Designs

Both the baseline and the discrete trials designs focus on group behavior rather than the behavior of an individual participant.

Using multiple observations taken within a treatment as an estimate of uncontrolled error variance is upset by:

When treatments cause irreversible changes in behavior, _____ designs can be used.

A _____ is designed to assess whether any changes in a baseline level produced by an intervention are revocable.

The main advantage of the single-subject approach is:

Those who advocate applying inferential statistics to data from single-subject designs use them as a substitute for control over variables and replication.

In a baseline design, a subject typically remains under a given experimental treatment until a behavioral baseline meets a stability criterion, which _____.

During an experiment that uses a baseline design, behavior during a baseline phase:

In dynamic designs, behavior immediately following the change in level can be observed to determine what has been called behavioral dynamics.

In the context of baseline designs, which of the following statements is true about intrasubject replication?

In contrast to baseline designs, a group-based design focuses on the behavior of a single subject both within and across experimental treatments.

_____ was pioneered by Sir Frances Galton.

Which of the following terms refers to extensions that incorporate aspects of the original experiment while changing others?

Using multiple levels of an independent variable in single-subject designs presents certain problems because:

Despite intersubject variability, the within-subjects approach worked because:

In a baseline design, the phase of an experiment during which a subject is exposed to an experimental treatment is called the _____ phase.

In the group approach, uncontrolled variability of the baseline within each phase that is produced by extraneous variables is handled by tight experimental control.

Which of the following is a characteristic of baseline designs?

Those who advocate applying inferential statistics to data from single-subject designs:

Partially recoverable baselines frequently occur when learning develops during a treatment condition.