Unit 10 Flashcards
A term sometimes used to refer to the experimental reasoning inherent in single-subject experimental designs that entails three elements: prediction, verification, and replication.
Baseline logic
Any experiment designed to identify the active elements of a treatment condition, the relative contributions of different variables in a treatment package, and/or the necessary and sufficient components of an intervention.
Component analysis
An experiment in which the researcher attempts to duplicate exactly the conditions of an earlier experiment
Direct replication
A procedure that prevents the subject and the observer(s) from detecting the presence or absence of the treatment variable. It is used to eliminate confounding of results by subject expectations, parent and teacher expectations, differential treatment by others, and observer bias.
Double blind control
The outcome of an experiment that demonstrates convincingly a functional relation, or the extent to which a researcher maintains precise control of the independent variable by presenting it, withdrawing it, and/or varying its value.
Experimental control
A statement of what the researcher seeks to learn by conducting the experiment.
Experimental question
A procedure that prevents a subject from detecting the presence or absence of the treatment variable.
Placebo control
Improvements in performance resulting from opportunities to perform a behavior repeatedly so that baseline measures can be obtained.
Practice effects
The extent to which the independent variable is applied exactly as planned and described and no other unplanned variables are administered inadvertently along with the planned treatment.
Procedural fidelity
Repeating conditions within an experiment to determine the reliability of effects and increase internal validity.
Replication
This is a category of research designs that use a form of experimental reasoning called baseline logic to demonstrate the effect of the independent variable on the behavior of individual subjects.
Single-subject design
Data that shows no evidence of an upward or downward trend.
Stable baseline
A pattern of responding that exhibits relatively little variation in its measured dimensional qualities over a period of time.
Steady state responding
An experiment in which the researcher purposefully varies one or more aspects of an earlier experiment.
Systematic replication
An undesirable situation in which the independent variable of an experiment is applied differently during later stages than it was at the outset of the study.
Placebo drift
