Full Description
This practical textbook provides background knowledge, basic concepts, and an understanding of relevant issues related to applied behavior analysis -- and specifically to single subject research designs. It combines explanation with application, providing you with an overview of the major types of single subject research designs. A summary of the results of applicable studies published in the professional literature follows the overview. Sample studies illustrate the application of principles, and concept checks help you gauge your grasp of the material.
Contents
PART 1: CONDUCTING SINGLE SUBJECT RESEARCH: ISSUES AND PROCEDURES.
1. Historical Perspectives and Important Concepts in Single Subject Research.
2. Methods for Changing Target Behaviors.
3. Methods for Recording Behaviors.
4. Issues in Single Subject Research.
5. Action Research.
PART 2: OVERVIEW AND APPLICATION OF SINGLE SUBJECT DESIGNS.
6. Withdrawal Designs.
7. Changing Conditions and Changing Criterion Designs.
8. Multiple Baseline Designs.
9. Alternating Treatments Designs.
PART 3: ANALYZING RESULTS FROM SINGLE SUBJECT STUDIES.
10. Methods for Analyzing Data.