A Student Officer in a Campus Organization Adopted an ABA

question 10

Multiple Choice

A student officer in a campus organization adopted an ABA design to test whether rewarding club members with beer and chips will encourage them to increase their attendance.Assume that "A" in the design represented no reward,and "B" represented provision of beer and chips.What should the student conclude if attendance improved following "B",but returned to its original level at the end of the experiment?

• A) There is a carryover effect of the reward.
• B) The improvement was due to a variable that was confounded with the reward.
• C) The reward had an effect on behavior.
• D) The improvement in behavior was due to time or maturation effects.

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