Unit 5 single subject research
In this unit, you will read Chapters 9 and 10 in your Chapter 11: “Overview of Alternating Treatments Design” This chapter provides the basic descriptions of the various alternating treatment designs, along with the advantages and disadvantages of this approach.
Chapter 12: “Application of Alternating Treatments Design” This chapter gives examples of actual studies that use the various alternating treatments designs that you read about in Chapter 9.ur Single Subject Research text.
Richards, S., Taylor, R., Ramasamy, R. (2014) Single subject research; applications in educational and clinical settings (2nd ed). Belmount, CA. Wadsworth
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Paper 2: Alternating Treatments Designs due 12/12/2014 5 days
Part 1: 300 words
Select one of the alternating treatments designs that you read about this week, and develop a hypothetical study that uses this method to compare and contrast the effectiveness of two different weight loss techniques. Be creative! Weight, of course, changes too slowly to be useful as a dependent variable in an alternating treatments design, nor is weight a direct measure of behavior. Therefore, do not choose weight itself as your dependent variable, but something truly behavioral such as minutes of exercise or calories eaten. Then, once you have your study designed, answer the following questions about your study. Why did you select this particular alternating treatments design? What are some threats to both the internal and external validity of your design? How might you work around these issues? Describe how, for the purposes of this particular study, the alternating treatments method would be an improvement over the multiple baseline method that you read about last week.
Part ;2 300 words
How do ethical concerns influence the different alternating treatments designs that researchers use? Provide a real life example of each of the alternating treatments methods; use a different setting for each example (e.g., work, school, clinic, etc.) and explain how ethical, legal, and sociocultural considerations could influence the decision to use one alternating treatments design over another.
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