Mod 9 JPG Chapter 10 - Steady States and Transitions Flashcards
The ___________________ involves measuring responding for each participant repeatedly under both baseline and experimental/treatment conditions, with the objective of obtaining a stable pattern of responding that represents the full effects of each condition.
[Hint: multiple words]
steady state strategy
If you repeatedly exposed each subject to a condition in an effort to control or eliminate extraneous influences and allow the condition to fully represent its effects on behavior, you would be using ____________________.
[Hint: multiple words]
steady state strategy
Just because some aspect of responding is stable, one should not conclude that the ___________________ is also stable.
observer
researcher
participant
environment
environment
By giving a participant repeated exposure first to the baseline condition and then to the intervention condition, the researcher is trying to get a graphical picture of responding under each condition that is ____ and _____.
complete
representative
A steady state of responding suggests that extraneous influences are minimal and:
that the dependent variable is responsible for any differences between conditions
that the treatment phase is effective
that any transition from the initial effects of the condition are complete
that the data are accurate, reliable, and valid
that any transition from the initial effects of the condition are complete
A __________________________ may be defined as a pattern of responding that shows relatively little variation in its measured dimensional quantities over some period of time.
[Hint: 2 words]
steady state
If a researcher is measuring the duration of a target behavior and achieves a steady state of responding, they can then conclude what about the frequency of that target behavior?
They cannot make any conclusions about the frequency of the target behavior.
They can conclude that the target behavior is increasing in frequency.
They can conclude that the frequency of the target behavior has also achieved a steady state of responding.
They cannot make any conclusions about the frequency of the target behavior.
The steady-state strategy is valuable for all of the following reasons, except:
It facilitates experimental comparisons.
It evaluates experimental control.
It ensures that data being recorded will be valid.
It ensures that data being recorded will be valid.
The researcher or practitioner must be sure that the data being compared fully represent the impact of each condition, so that any differences in responding that are seen may be attributed to the __________________________.
[Hint: two words]
IV
A trend in the data that has no obvious explanation is troublesome for researchers for all of the following reasons, except:
A trend makes it more difficult to determine the effects of an intervention.
There are no informal criteria or rules to help guide a researcher’s decision-making process if this occurs.
Some variable is influencing behavior significantly and this could interfere with seeing the impact of the control condition or the intervention condition
There are no informal criteria or rules to help guide a researcher’s decision-making process if this occurs.
The most popular approach to determine stability criteria is based on:
graphical analysis
descriptive analysis
statistical analysis
nondata criterion
graphical analysis
_________________ criteria usually specify a limited amount of variability that will be permitted over a certain number of data points.
nondata
descriptive
graphical
statistical
statistical
A relatively consistent change in data in a single direction is called a(n):
transition state
cycle
trend
transitory state
trend
__________________ is a measure of variability defined by the highest and lowest values in a data set.
trend
level
range
rate
range
A _________________ is a repeating pattern of local variability, often involving sequences of increasing and decreasing trends (in either order).
level
cycle
range
trend
cycle
