Chapter 4 – Doing Behavior Modification Research
After studying this chapter, you will be able to:
- Outline six research designs commonly used when doing research in behavior modification, including the reversal-replication (ABAB) design, three types of multiple-baseline design, the changing-criterion design, and the alternating-treatments design.
- Describe scientific criteria behavior modifiers typically used to evaluate whether a treatment has produced a change in behavior.
- Discuss ways to evaluate the acceptability of a behavioral treatment to the recipients of it.