Chapter 10: Planning and Evaluating ABA Research

Question 1

any experiment designed to identify the active elements of a treatment condition, the relative contributions of different variables in a treatment package and or the necessary and sufficient components of the basic strategy is to compare levels of responding across successive phases in which the intervention is implement \ed with one or more components left out.

Answer 1

Component analysis

Question 2

any experiment in which the researcher attempts to duplicated exactly the conditions of an earlier experiment

Answer 2

Direct replication

Question 3

a procedure that prevents the subject and the observers from detecting the presence or absence of the treatment variable used to eliminate confounding of results by subject expectations, parent and teacher expectations differential treatment by other and observer bias

Answer 3

Double- Blind Control

Question 4

a procedure that prevents a subject from detecting the presence or absence of the treatment variable. To the subject the placebo condition appears the same as the treatment condition (e.g. a placebo pill contains an inert substance but looks feels and tastes exactly like a pill that contain the treatment drug

Answer 4

Placebo Control

Question 5

(a) repeating conditions within an experiment to determine the reliability of effects and increase internal validity (b) repeating whole experiments to determine the generality of findings of previous experiments to other subjects settings and or behaviors

Answer 5

Replication

Question 6

an experiment in which the researcher purposefully varies one or more aspects of earlier experiment. A systematic replication that reproduces the results of previous research not only demonstrates the reliability of the earlier findings but also adds to the external validity of the earlier findings by showing that the same effect can be obtained under different conditions

Answer 6

Systematic replication

Question 7

an undesirable situation in which the independent variable of an experiment is applied differently during later stages than it was at the outset of the study.

Answer 7

Treatment drift-

Question 8

the extent to which the independent variable is applied exactly as planned and described and no other unplanned variables are administered inadvertently along with the planned treatment

Answer 8

Treatment integrity

Procedural fidelity

Question 9

an error that occurs when a researcher concludes that the independent variable had a n effect on the dependent variable when no such relation exists FALSE POSITIVE

Answer 9

Type I error

Question 10

an error that occurs when a researcher concludes that the independent variable had an effect on the dependent variable when in truth it did not FALSE NEGATIVE

Answer 10

Type II error