ABA 602Midterm
Spring 2021 – Dr. Katherine Baker
**** THIS IS A CLOSED BOOK & NOTE EXAM ****
Total:
/50 points
1. Match the design to the key feature (8 points)
ABAB reversal – _________________
Multiple baseline- _________________
Alternating treatments- _________________
Changing criterion- _________________
a. Allows for evaluation across participants, environments or problems
b. Allows for the comparison of multiple interventions
c. Allows for the establishment of a functional relation while changing
the relationship in a positive direction
d. Allows for a more reliable establishment of a relationship between
intervention and the outcome
2. What is baseline? (2 point)
3. What is steady state responding? (2 point)
4. What is a confounding variable? (2 point)
5. Give two examples of confounding variables? (4 points)
6. What is the difference between internal and external validity? (4 points)
7. Independent variable is the ______________________________ and the external
variable is the _________________________. (word bank: effect and cause) – (2
points)
8. Give an example of an independent variable? (3 points)
9. Give an example of a dependent variable? (3 points)
10. In general most ABA research is single subject or group designs? ___________ (2
points)
11. What is direct replication? (4 points)
12. What part of a research article is the abstract? (2 points)
13. Give two examples of socially significant behavior (2 point)
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
14. Label the parts of the graph (14 points)
a. X-axis
b. Y-axis
c. Phase Label
d. Phase change line
e. Data point
f. Data path
g. Figure caption