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| An experiment entailing one reversal. |
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| An experiment reintroducing the B condition enables the replication of treatment effects, which strengthens the demonstration of experimental control. |
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| Alternating Treatments Design |
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| The rapid alternation of two or more distinct treatments while their effects on the target behavior are measured. |
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| Begins with application of the independent variable, i.e. the treatment, and entails one reversal. |
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| DRI/DRA Reversal Technique |
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| Occurrences of a specified behavior that is either incompatible with the target behavior or an alternative to the target behavior are immediately followed by the same consequence previously delivered as contingent reinforcement for the target behavior. |
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| The control condition consists of delivering the event suspected of functioning as reinforcement following the emission of any behavior other than the target behavior. |
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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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| The treatment design provides an experimentally sound and efficient method for comparing the effects of two or more treatments. |
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| Multiple 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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| Multiple Treatment Reversal Design |
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| Experiments that use the reversal design to compare the effects of two or more experimental conditions to baseline and/or to one another. |
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| A higher level of responding during the reinforcement condition demonstrates that the changes in behavior are the result of contingent reinforcement, not simply the presentation of or contact with the stimulus event. |
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| Any experimental design in which the researcher attempts to verify the effect of the independent variable by "reversing" responding to a level obtained in a previous condition: encompasses experimental designs in which the independent variable is withdrawn. |
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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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| A term used by some authors as a synonym for A-B-A-B design; also used to describe experiments in which an effective treatment is sequentially or partially withdrawn to promote the maintenance of behavior changes. |
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