research design

Question 1

what is the beauty withdraw design

Answer 1

you can reintroduce your conditions over and over again

Question 2

what is the benefit of doing the withdrawal design

Answer 2

you are able to examen reliability of effect

Question 3

withdrawn design

Answer 3

to demonstrate a functional relation by showing change in behavior between A condition and B condition.

Question 4

AB’A

ABA

Answer 4

Reversal Design ( forcing behavior to go back to baseline)

Withdrawn Design ( simply taking out independent variable)

Question 5

In order to accomplish the purpose of research design (to separate the effects of independent variable from everything else) you must have?

Answer 5

have at least two condition that are identical except for presence or absence of independent variable.

Question 6

what is variation withdraw design?

Answer 6

1. the A conditional alone ( is for apply setting get the characteristic of the behavior) there is only one condition. not a research design
2. the B condition alone ( in applied setting, no baseline, just introduce treatment)
3. AB design ( yes is a research design you have the two conditions) cant examen reliability of effect

Question 7

Even in apply setting, why should you want to see the reliability of the effect?

Answer 7

1. you are more sure and becomes a tool to use with other clients.
2. being more sure that what you are doing is necessary (the kid cares it can is I t beneficial to the person)

Question 8

what are a prediction, verification, and replication?

Answer 8

Predict, behavior will not change unless an independent variable is introduced and has control over behavior.

Verifying that changes in behavior is due to independent variable or not.

Once you introduce B2 condition you are replicating.

Question 9

what is changing condition design

Answer 9

(another veriation of the withdraw design) you can have multiple treatment conditions without replication.
A-B-C-D-E
(is missing the reliability of the effect )

Question 10

the multiple treatment design

Answer 10

you multiple treatment condition but it does have replication.
A-B-A-C-A-D-A-E-A

Question 11

changing craterian design

Answer 11

each condition is a changing in the value in the trement conding or changing the perametor (FR(x)
DRO (1M)
DRO (2M)
DRO (3M)

Question 12

What are the steps to set the changing criteria design?

Answer 12

Step 1: determine your terminal goal, when you reach end of all criteria change where do you want your behavior to be. for example I want children to complete 30 math problem in 20 minutes

Step 2: determine the criteria level for your first sub face. You have baseline then independent variable.

Question 13

What are the approaches to use for determining the initial criteria level?

Answer 13

First approach: taking the average of baseline

Second approach: taking the average + or - 50% of baseline

Third approach: taking the highest or lowest data point in baseline

Fourth approach: take mean of upper variability level if you are going up but take mean of lower variability level if going down. this way subject is not coming into contacting with a criteria level that they haven’t done in the past.

Question 14

how long do you run each sub-phase?

Answer 14

you run until you get a steady-state.

Question 15

what happens if your criteria level is changing too small?

Answer 15

I won’t be able to demonstrate experimental control, may take too long to get to the terminal goal.

Question 16

what happens if your criteria level is too high?

Answer 16

you run the risk of ratio strain, this occurs when the schedule parameter is higher than the subject parameter.

Question 17

how many sub-phases should there be to demonstrate experimental control?

Answer 17

the more the better at least 3 or 4.

Question 18

how do we do the direction of change?

Answer 18

either reverse direction and go back to baseline level. Either a withdraw baseline or change criteria levels to demonstrate experimental control.
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Question 19

What are the Two response classes you have to sure are in multiple baselines across response?

Answer 19

1. Functionally independent

2. Functionally equivalent

Question 20

what is Functionally Independent?

Answer 20

They belong to separate response classes. if not when there is a change in topography one is going to change and so will the other.

Question 21

what is Functionally Equivalent?

Answer 21

they are affected the same way when exposed to similar contingencies but functionally independent.

Question 22

is it ok to do replication across subjects and say that’s ok?

Answer 22

no, because in behavior analysis we first compare sequentially we look within-the subject first.

Question 23

what is delayed multiple baseline design?

Answer 23

you start with a single baseline, introduce independent variable and so on, you run your typical ABA, at some point after you implementing the 1st baseline, you decided to implement a 2nd baseline.

Question 24

When do we use a delayed multiple baseline design?

Answer 24

When you start out looking at a single subject and then you decide that is something that you can use with another subject or setting. Is a decision that is made at later point in time.

Question 25

what are the three ways to do Multiple Probe Baseline Design

Answer 25

Type 1: Continuous collecting data on all of the baselines, and then at some point I go to probe on all of the baselines before introducing my Independent Variable.
Type 2: Continuous collecting data of 1 baseline all way through, and then probe the others.
Type 3: Continuous on all and then go to probe all, and then go back to continuous on all, before introducing the treatment condition.

Question 26

Alternative Treatment Design

Answer 26

IT IS AN STUPID AND REDICULOUS DESIGN.
You have 2 or more IVs and you are rapidly alternating between those 2 or more variables either across the session, across the state or even within a session
Exposed to A then B then C then D then E and then back to A. you are unlikely to establish steady state. You will have potential problem on what is known as sequence effects.

Question 27

Sequence effect

Answer 27

is when the change in one condition occurs because of the exposed of the previous condition

Question 28

what are the three Variations of Alternative Treatment design

Answer 28

1. With or without a no-treatment condition. So, I can do a B-C-D with no A condition.
2. With or without baseline. You stay in the A condition until your steady-state before going into your rapid alternation between your different conditions.
3. You can end in one of the treatment conditions maintain. So, let say you end in C condition and it won’t change any more.

Question 29

You have 2 rules in Variations of Alternative Treatment design

Answer 29

1. You have to counterbalance all your conditions. A-B-C-D-E, in the end, will be presented at equal times.
2. Each condition has to be associated with a unique (a strong) Sd, to assure the subject’s behavior discriminates between different conditions.