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Threats to internal validity include - Answer Testing, maturation, procedural infidelity
Events that occur during the experiment but that are not related to planned procedural
changes that may influence the outcomes. - Answer History
Changes in behavior due to the passage of time - Answer Maturation
Occurs when participants need to respond to the same test repeatedly during a
baseline or probe condition, whcih influences responding - Answer Testing
Measurement system threats, and a concern for repeated measurement by human
observers who might commit errors - Answer Instrumentation
Lack of standardization in the administration of the experimental manipulation - Answer
Procedural infidelity
The loss of participant's behavior is affected by more than one planned intervention
during a study - Answer Multiple treatment interference
A type of data instability that refers to a recurring and regular pattern in the data series
over time - Answer cyclical variability
Carryover effects: - Answer
The hypothesis that states that there is no significant difference between samples is: -
,Answer The null hypothesis
Amanda is a Registered Behavioral Technician at an ABA clinic. She is currently
working with her client, Jerrell, to decrease aggressive responses (i.e., biting others).
She has taken data for three weeks on the number of times Jerrell bites others.
Calculate the mean, median, and mode of the following data set (round to the nearest
whole number):
Week 1: 22, 31, 20, 32, 32
Week 2: 7, 8, 13, 31, 17
Week 3:16, 5, 9, 12, 15-Answer Mean = 18, median =16, Mode =31,32
Dr. Jones wanted to see whether implementation of the Good Behavior Game lowered
the rate of disruptive behaviors in an elementary school. Dr. Jones run data for the
entire school year between two elementary schools. In school A, all k-6 classrooms
implemented the Good Behavior Game. School B In no classroom was the Good
Behavior Game employed. At the end of the school year, Dr. Jones was saying "Eureka!
The Good Behavior Game works," when, in fact, it did not affect student disruptive
behavior. This is an example of: - Answer A type II error
The method section's main purpose is to: - Answer Both A and B
Present an overview of the proposed plan of study.
Provide sufficient detail about the study such that a knowledgeable researcher could
conduct the study as described without additional information.
Which of the following is TRUE about single-case research design? - Answer Most
studies include more than one participant
These graphs illustrate which of the following - Answer inter-subject replication with a
multiple baseline design across behaviors
These data depict (q10) - Answer A change in variability
, Which of the following is a limitation of using statistical significance to distinguish
between meaningful and trivial change? - Answer When sample sizes are large, the
rejection of the null hypothesis becomes more certain.
When sample sizes are sufficiently large, statistics for populations will always differ
significantly
Statistical analysis may fail to reject the null hypothesis in small sample sizes
Which of the following is a limitation of group design? - Answer The null hypothesis is
more unequivocally rejected in larger samples
Dr. Lestremau is working in a big urban school district with 10 elementary schools. She
plans to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of peer-mediated, school-based,
discrete trial training to teach multiplication skills to six students diagnosed with autism
spectrum disorder. She will obtain on-going and frequent measurement of students
fluency with multiplication facts. Dr. Lestremau is using: - Answer Single case research
design methodology
Kacyn is a BCBA working for an ABA Center. She is running a small social skills group
with 6 children with autism spectrum disorder. Kacyn is using the "Tough Kids Social
Skills Curriculum." The goal of the social skills sessions is to build basic social entry
skills (e.g., making eye contact, greetings, responding to name). Prior to the start of the
group, data were collected from all participants by Kacyn. That is, she had the
therapists fill out the BASC-2 for the participants, a rating scale that assesses changes
in behavior and emotional status. She also obtained the frequency of spontaneous
greetings during a 30-minute observation period. She also continued to gather data on
spontaneous greetings throughout and post-implementation of the social skills group.
What is the Dependent Variable? Answer Spontaneous greetings frequency
According to Carr and Briggs, 2010, practitioners of applied behavior analysis base
their professional activities on the research literature. One of the barriers is the cost of
journal subscriptions. A solution proposed by Carr and Briggs, 2010, includes : - Answer
Reading articles in journals, such as, the journal of Behavior assessment and
intervention in children that provide articles for free.
Which of the following is the correct format for a parenthetical citation with 4 authors for
the first parenthetical citation in text: - Answer (Dieringer, Wilczynski, Cullen, &
McIntosh, 2017)