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1. If you establish that changes in the treatment are accompanied by changes in behavior, you have established
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a. Covariation
b. Temporal precedence
2. Manipulating the treatment is the best way to establish
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a. Covariation
b. Temporal precedence
3. Comparing conditions´ scores on the dependent measure helps establish
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a. Covariation
b. Temporal precedence
4. Randomized experiments and single-n experiments are most similar in terms of how they
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a. Control for spuriousness
b. Establish temporal precedence
5. A stable baseline is evidence that
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a. Nontreatment variables have been held constant
b. The treatment has been manipulated
6. The A-B design is most vulnerable to
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a. Regression
b. Testing
7. The A-B-A design has more internal validity than the A-B design.
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a. True
b. False
8. In A-B-A designs, the only way to establish that the treatment had an effect is for the behavior to return to baseline after the treatment is withdrawn.
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a. True
b. False
9. Expanding the A-B-A design to an A-B-A-B-A-B design would
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a. Improve its internal validity
b. Improve its external validity
10. Counterbalancing is most likely to be used in a
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a. Multiple-baseline design
b. Psychophysical design
11. Single-n researchers often use simpler designs to reduce both internal validity problems and construct validity problems.
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a. True
b. False
12. Using placebo treatments and using few treatment levels
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a. Reduces external validity
b. Increases construct validity
13. The most difficult case to make is for the single-n study´s internal validity.
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a. True
b. False
14. It might be argued that people tend to overestimate the single-n design´s internal validity and underestimate its external validity.
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a. True
b. False
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