Lecture 11: Small-N Designs
11/30/04
- Typical Characteristics
- Only a few people/animals
- All of the data are shown
- Why Small-N?
- Statistical summarizations may be misleading
- When is Large-N not possible?
- Behavior Change & Analysis
- Characteristics of Small-N designs
- What is an A-B design?
- Withdrawal Designs
- Multiple Baseline Design
- When is withdrawal design not possible?
- Kinds
- same behavior in 2 or more participants
- 2 or more behaviors for one participant
- 2 or more settings for one behavior for one participant
- Changing Criterion Design
- A-B-C-B design
- A-A1-B-A1-B design
- Alternating treatment
- Evaluation of single/small-n designs
- External validity
- No statistical analyses
- Based on operant conditioning
- Psychophysics
- Sensation & perception studies
- Case Studies
- Very detailed description of one individual, or a few people
- Value
- Problems
Research
Methods Page
Last updated: 11/29/04