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Graph

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visual representation of the occurrence of a behaviour over time

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follow-up period

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the long period after treatment has been implemented

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abscissa

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the x-axis (time)

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ordinate

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the y-axis (behaviour)

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research design

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determine whether the treatment (independent variable) was responsible for the observed change in the target behaviours (dependent variable) and to rule out other possibility that extraneous variables caused the behaviour to change

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independent variable

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what the researcher manipulates to produce a change in the target behaviour

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dependent variable

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target behaviour

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extraneous variable

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any event that the researcher did not plan that may have affected the behaviour (confounding variable)

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functional relationship

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when a researcher shows that a behaviour modification procedure causes a target behaviour to change

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multiple-baseline-across-subjects design

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there is a baseline and a treatment phase for the same target behaviour of two or more subjects

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multiple-baseline-across-behaviours design

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there is a baseline and a treatment phase for two or more behaviour of the same subject

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multiple-baseline-across-settings design

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there is a baseline and a treatment phase for two or more settings in which the same behaviour of the same subject is measured

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alternating-treatments design (ATD)

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baseline and treatment conditions (or two treatment conditions) are conducted in rapid succession and compared with each other (multi-element design)

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changing-criterion design

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successive goal levels for the target behaviour specify how much the target behaviour should change during treatment

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