Deck 2: Adaptive Learning Research Methods

Question 1

____ validity refers to the ability to conclude cause and effect.

A) Social
B) Internal
C) External
D) Experimental

Answer 1

Internal

Question 2

____ validity refers to the extent to which findings may be generalized beyond the research setting.

A) Social
B) Internal
C) External
D) Experimental

Answer 2

External

Question 3

Advantages of single-subject designs include

A) monitoring of the subject's behavior throughout the experiment.
B) large numbers of subjects are not required to conduct an entire experiment.
C) they do not require sophisticated statistical analysis.
D) all of these

Answer 3

all of these

Question 4

The best baselines are ____ or trend in the _____ direction to the predicted intervention effect.

A) instable; same
B) instable; opposite.
C) stable; same
D) stable; opposite.

Question 5

A _____ design includes initially obtaining a baseline, then introducing an intervention, and then returning to the baseline conditions.

A) reversal
B) multiple baseline
C) group
D) correlational

Question 6

A _____ design includes initially obtaining a baseline on different people, in different settings, or for different behaviors, and then sequentially introducing an intervention.

A) reversal
B) multiple baseline
C) group
D) correlational