The Advantage of Using a Withdrawal Design as Part of a Single-Case

question 89

Multiple Choice

The advantage of using a withdrawal design as part of a single-case experiment is that the researcher can

• A) counterbalance the research design with additional measures to improve internal and external validity.
• B) control for the placebo effect.
• C) conduct a true double-blind experiment.
• D) determine whether improvements gained with treatment are lost when the treatment is withheld.

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