Skipper does the laundry 25 of the time and washes dishes about 50 of the time. Barbie decides to start praising Skipper for doing the laundry. After that, Skipper begins to do the laundry about 75 of the time. Since that was successful, Barbie decides to try praising Skipper's dish washing, too. Soon, Skipper is washing the dishes 100 of the time. What experimental design was Barbie using?
a. A-B Design
b. Changing Criterion
c. Multiple Baseline
d. A-B-A-B Design
Question 2Despite the name, in the ______________ single-subject design, more than one person can be tested.
a. changing-criterion design
b. interaction design
c. multiple-conditions design
d. multiple-baseline design
Question 3Mary was frustrated with her son John. He almost never took out the trash and only cleaned his bathroom about half of the time that it needed it. Mary wanted to see if paying John was an effective treatment, so she started giving him cash every time he took out the trash. He soon became outstanding in this area, taking it out every time that she asked. Since the money worked so well with the trash, she decided to see if it would also help him to clean his room more often. Soon after she started paying him for cleaning his room, that behavior also increased dramatically. What experimental design was Mary using?
a. Multiple baseline across behaviors
b. Multiple baseline across individuals
c. Changing criteria
d. Alternating treatment
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