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| A three phase experimental design consisting of an initial baseline, and intervention phase, and a return to baseline condition. In order move to the next phase a steady state must be achieved |
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| An experimental design consisting of a baseline phase, intervention phase, return to baseline condition phase, and a second intervention phase. Steady state must be achieved to move through the conditions. The second return to phase line is to see whether the initial treatments effects are replicated. |
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| Alternating Treatment Designs |
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| An experimental design in which two or more conditions are presented in rapidly alternating succession independent of the level of responding. |
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| Begins with the application of the treatment condition. Once steady state is achieved the condition is removed. If the behavior worsens the treatment condition is reintroduced |
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| Multiple Treatment reversal design |
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| Any expeimental design that uses experimental methods and logic of the reversal tactic to compare the effects of two or more experimental conditions |
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| DRI/DRA Reversal Technique |
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| An experimental phase that demonstrates the effectiveness of reinforcement. Uses differential reinforcement of an incompatable reinforcement of an incompatiable or alternative behavior as a control condition instead of a no-reinforcement condition |
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| An experimental technique for demonstrating the effects of reinforcement by using differential reinforcement of other behaviors as a control condition |
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| A situation that occurs when the level of responding observed in a previous phase cannot be reproduced even though the experimental conditions are the same as they were during the earlier phase. |
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| an experimental design in which two or more conditions are presented in rapidly alternating succession independent of the level of responding |
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| Multi treatment Interference |
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| The effects of one treatment on a subject's behavior being confounding by the influence of another treatment administered in the same study. |
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| An experimental control technique that demonstrates the effects of reinforcement by using noncontingent reinforcement as a control condition instead of no reinforcement. |
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| An experimental design in which the researcher attempts to verify the effect of the independent variable by "reversing" responding to a level obtained in the previous conditions. |
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| The effects on a subject's behavior in a given condition that are the results of the subject's experience with a prior condition. |
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| An effective treatment is sequentially or partially withdrawn to promote the maintenance of behavior changes. Synonymous with A-B-A-B design |
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