Exam 6: Single-Subject Designs

External influences may cause irregular performance with a single-subject design.

Flexibility is the major strength of multiple-baseline designs.

The multiple baseline across settings design is successful when the changes in responding to one setting interact with the changes of each other setting.

Behavioral observation works best with single-subject designs when:

Case studies are examples of single subject designs.

Characteristics of the ABAB design include:

Characteristics of the single-subject design include:

Some common problems with reversal designs include:

Multiple-baseline designs should eliminate the internal validity threat of history.

Random assignment of treatment to a particular participant, setting, or behavior in a multiple-baseline design decreases the design's flexibility.

The ABAB design limits the researcher to two phases, baseline and treatment conditions.

Describe the process of conducting an ABAB design.

What is the purpose of a multielement design?

The visual analysis of single-subject designs includes:

Independence of treatment effects may be violated with which of the following multiple baseline designs:

Additional A and B phases to a single-subject design decrease the threats to external validity.

The single-subject design is considered quasi-experimental because:

With multiple-baseline designs, multiple baselines may include:

Trend lines are the only criterion needed when doing a visual analysis of single-subject designs.

Since so few subjects are used with single-subject designs, the threats to external validity are reduced.