Exam 12: Using Single-Subject Designs

List the characteristics of the single-subject baseline design. Identify its key features, and explain how these features are used in research.

Unlike group-based designs, a baseline design _____.

The pioneering experimentalists:

In the context of the types of single-subject baseline design, which of the following is a characteristic of AB designs, where A refers to the baseline phase and B refers to the intervention phase of an experiment?

In the simplest case, a baseline design involves exposing a subject to a(n) _____ phase to assess the subject's behavior during the application of an experimental treatment.

Intersubject replication helps establish the _____ of data in a single-subject baseline design.

In baseline designs, when one moves from baseline to intervention and then back to baseline, this return to a previous phase is termed a reversal strategy.

The ABAB design provides a:

With the advent of the group approach, the single-subject approach:

In baseline designs, when a subject is exposed to each of the two phases twice, a baseline phase and an intervention phase, it yields a(n) _____ design.

What is behavioral dynamics? How does it differ from an approach that looks only at steady-state behavior?

In the simplest case, a baseline design involves exposing a subject to a(n) _____ phase to assess the subject's behavior in the absence of an experimental treatment.

In the context of problem baselines, even if all subjects show similar baseline levels during a baseline phase, the particular levels obtained may not be useful for evaluating the effect of subsequent manipulations. This gives rise to the problem of _____.

Unlike the baseline design, the discrete trials design:

In single-subject designs, tight experimental control of extraneous variables increases internal validity.

Design a multiple-baseline experiment on reducing bad habits. Clearly label each phase, and indicate why each phase is included. Also, show a graph of the expected results if your treatment were effective.

B. F. Skinner and his followers established their own journal, the _____, because they were unwilling to use inferential statistics to establish the reliability of their findings, making it increasingly difficult to get their results published.

In baseline designs, an intervention phase is used to assess a subject's behavior in the absence of an experimental treatment.

_____ designs employ a continuously varying independent variable.

Compare and contrast the group approach and the single-subject approach.