A Prime Example of an Internal Failure Cost Is The

question 85

Multiple Choice

A prime example of an internal failure cost is the:

• A) labor cost associated with inspecting every item produced.
• B) labor cost associated with repairing an item returned under warranty.
• C) material cost of a piece of stock metal that has had too large a hole drilled in it.
• D) material cost of the paint applied to the case of a finished unit.

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Definitions:

AB Design

A basic experimental design consisting of a control phase (A) followed by a treatment phase (B), used primarily in behavior analysis to assess the effect of a treatment or intervention.

Randomized AB Design

An experimental design involving random assignment to two groups, A (control) and B (treatment), to examine the effect of a variable.

ABAB Design

Another name for Reversal Design, illustrating the sequence of observational and intervention phases: A (baseline) followed by B (intervention), another A (withdrawal of intervention), and final B (re-introduction of intervention).

ABAB Designs

A type of experimental design used in behavioral research involving sequential phases to compare the effect of a variable.