Steady State Strategy
- is repeatedely exposing a subject to given conditions while trying to control any extraneous factors.
The goal of steady state responding
- is to have a means to assess the level of experimental control in experiments.
- when the IV seperated from possible confounding vairables, with evidence, the confounding variables is either absent, constant, or manipulated as an IV.
- a pattern of responding that exhibits relatively little variation in its measured dimentional qualities over time. This leads to a powerful form of experimental reasoning known as baseline logic which entials prediction, verification, and replication.
Single-subject design
- the "subject" is typically 4-8 subjects that is the most common in applied behavior analysis studies
- experiments in ABA are often referred to as single subject designs because the subject serves as his or her own control.
Experimental control
- is over the person's environment.
- experimenter may control only some aspects of the subjects evnironment to demonstrate control over behavior.