Chapter 12

Question 1

Single case experimental designs

Answer 1

Allow researchers to systematically examine how an independent variable influences the behavior of an individual case

Question 2

Treatment phase (intervention phase)

Answer 2

Involves the presentation of a specific treatment or other intervention

Question 3

Baseline phase

Answer 3

The control condition. The treatment is not presented

Question 4

Psychophysics

Answer 4

Examines the relation between physical properties of stimuli such as their intensity, and sensory perceptual responses

Question 5

Experimental analysis of behavior

Answer 5

The intensive study, under controlled conditions, of how environmental stimuli and consequences regulate an individual organisms behavior

Question 6

Applied behavior analysis

Answer 6

The application of the experimental analysis of behavior to problems of social importance

Question 7

A.B. A.B. designs

Answer 7

Typically involve a sequence of bases in which a treatment is either absent or present

Question 8

Withdrawal designs (reversal designs)

Answer 8

Because after the initial a face the subsequent a phases involve a withdrawal of the treatment or a reversal of the procedures.

Question 9

Target behavior

Answer 9

Behavior that a treatment is designed to change

Question 10

Multiple baseline design

Answer 10

Behavior is repeatedly measured first during a baseline. And then during a treatment.

This procedure is replicated using at least one other person, behavior, or setting

The time at which the treatment is introduced and thus typically the length of the baseline. Varies across the different people, behaviors, or settings,

Question 11

Multiple baseline design across subjects

Answer 11

Two or more participants are exposed to the same treatment and the switch from baseline to treatment period Is staggered across participants

Question 12

Multiple baseline design across behaviors

Answer 12

The same treatment as apply to two or more distinct behaviors of the same individual and the switch from baseline to treatment periods is Staggered across behaviors

Question 13

Multiple baseline design across settings

Answer 13

The same treatment as applied to the same target behavior in two or more settings, and the switch from baseline to treatment of staggered across settings

Question 14

Changing criterion design

Answer 14

An initial baseline phase is followed by a treatment phase that lasts until the target behavior reaches a criterion level and become stable. Treatment then continues in a series of additional phases, with a new and typically more demanding performance criterion set in each phase