D04 Describe the Advantages of Single Subject Experimental Designs Compared to Group Designs

Question 1

Disadvantages of group designs include

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The inability to replicate the treatment effects with a subject.
The average performance may not reveal anything about individual subject performance.
It can conceal behavioral variability that may be important to investigate.

Question 2

Advantages of single subject research designs include

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The identification of treatments that work for an individual.
It provides verification of evidence based practices.
The demonstration of experimental control within the design.
It addresses behavior variability through the experimental design.

Question 3

The fundamental logic underlying group research design is that

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Participants in each study condition are equivalent on key characteristics

Question 4

In single subject research designs,

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Participants serve as their own control and are exposed to all experimental conditions

Question 5

Establishing treatment effectiveness using single subject methodologies

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Provides verification for the use of evidence-based practices.

Question 6

The primary disadvantage of a group design compared to a single subject design, is that

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The average performance of a group may not reveal anything about the performance of an individual subject

Question 7

A disadvantage of averaging the performance of participants in a group design is that it can

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Mask variability that is important to investigate

Question 8

In group comparison research designs, a large number of participants

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Are randomly divided into two or more study conditions

Question 9

An advantage of single-subject research designs is that

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Individual variability is controlled by exposing each subject to all conditions