Juan Conducts a Study with a Boy Who Has Been

question 150

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Juan conducts a study with a boy who has been inattentive during class. Juan first measures the number of times per class period the boy looks around the classroom without paying attention to the teacher. Then, Juan administers a treatment whereby the boy is given a reinforcement for each time that he pays attention to the teacher. Then, Juan takes away the reinforcement for a period of time to see if the inattentiveness returns. Finally, Juan reintroduces the reinforcement for attentive behavior. Juan has conducted which kind of experiment.

• A) A-B-A design
• B) A-B-A-B design
• C) Interrupted time-series design
• D) Posttest-only control-group design

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