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| A-B-A design | an experimental design consisting of an initial baseline phase, an intervention phase, and a return to baseline conditions by withdrawing the independent variable to see whether responding "reverses" to levels observed in the initial baseline phase |
| A-B-A-B design | An experimental design consisting of an initial baseline phase, an initial intervention phase, a return to baseline condition, and a second intervention phase |
| alternating treatments design | an experimental design in which two or more conditions are presented in rapidly alternating succession independent of the level of responding |
| B-A-B design | an experimental design that begins with the treatment condition |
| DRI/DRA reversal technique | an experimental technique that demonstrates the effects of reinforcement using a differential reinforcement of an incompatible or alternative behavior (DRI/DRA) as a control condition instead of a no-reinforcement condition |
| DRO reversal technique | an experimental technique for demonstrating the effects of reinforcement by using differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) as a control condition instead of a no-reinforcement condition |
| irreversibility | 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 |
| multielement design | also knows as alternating treatments design |
| multiple treatment interference | the effects of one treatment on a subject's behavior being confounding by the influence of another treatment administered in the same study |
| multiple treatment reversal design | any experimental design that uses the experimental methods and logic of the reversal tactic to compare the effects of two or more experimental conditions to baseline and/or to one another |
| (NCR) reversal technique | an experimental control technique that demonstrates the effects of reinforcement by using noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) as a control condition instead of a no-reinforcement condition |
| reversal design | 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 |
| sequence effects | the effects on a subject's behavior in a given condition that are the result of the subject's experience with a prior condition |
| withdrawal design | 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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