Month 5/Group 6 Flashcards
Adapted Alternating Treatments Design
A variation of the multielement design for comparing the efficiency of instructional procedures
Alternating Treatments Design
Also called multielement design
Affirmation of the Consequent
If A is true, then B is true. B is found to be true, therefore A is true.
Changing Criterion Design
An experimental design in which an initial BL phase is followed by a series of tx phases consisting of successive and gradually changing criteria for SR or punishment; experimental control evidenced by extent the level responding changes to conform to each new criterion.
Concurrent Chains (schedule) Design
A design in which participants are presented with two or more response options.
Confounding Variable
A factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in the experiment
Delayed Multiple Baseline Design
Design where an initial baseline and intervention are begun, and subsequent baselines are staggered
Experimental Control
When a predictable change in behavior is reliably produced by the systematic manipulation of some aspect of the environment.
Experimental Design
The particular arrangement of conditions in a study
External Validity
The degree to which a study’s results are generalizable to other subjects, settings, and behavior
Internal Validity
When an experiment shows convincingly that changes in the DV are a function of the IV
Irreversibility
A level of behavior observed in an earlier phase cannot be reproduced
Multielement Design
Design in which two or more conditions are presented in rapidly alternating succession
Multiple Baseline Design
Design used when target behavior is irreversible or when it is undesirable to withdraw treatment
Multiple Probe Design
Design used to intermittently measure the effect of the IV on the DV
Multiple Treatment Interference
The effects of one treatment on a subject’s behavior being confounding by the influence of another treatment administered in the same study
Multiple Treatment Reversal Design
Comparing the effects of two or more experimental conditions to baseline and/or to one another
Practice Effects
Improvements in performance resulting from repeated opportunities to emit the behavior
Prediction
The anticipated outcome of a presently unknown or future measurement
Replication
Repeating a previous experiment
Reversal Design
A type of single-subject design that involves repeated alternations between a baseline period and a treatment period
Sequence Effects
The effects on a subject’s behavior in a given condition the are the result of the subject’s experience with a prior condition
Single-Case Designs
Experimental studies conducted with a single individual
Treatment Drift
The application of the IV differs from the way it was applied at the study’s outset
Treatment Integrity
The extent to which the IV is implemented as planned
Treatment Package
When a behavioral intervention consists of multiple components
Type I Error
False positive. The researcher concludes that the IV had an effect on the DV, when in reality it did not
Type II Error
False negative. The researcher concludes that the IV did not have an effect on the DV, when in reality it did
Verification
Demonstrating that the prior level of baseline responding would have remained unchanged.
Withdrawal Design
An effective treatment is sequentially or partially withdrawn to promote the maintenance of behavior changes. Synonymous with A-B-A-B design
