Discussion week 5
Describe the ABA reversal design. Provide a specific example that would be good to use for the ABA
reversal design (describe baseline condition, treatment condition, etc.).
Provide an example of the multielement design with a specific example.
A reversal design entails repeated measures of behavior in a given setting that requires at least
three consecutive phases (Cooper, Heron, and Heward 2020) Reversal designs measure behavior in a
given setting that requires at least three consecutive phases. But there are different types of reversal
designs A-B-A design entails on reversal is one of them. The first phase of A-B-A design shows the
Baseline (A) data are collected until steady state responding is achieved. The next phase (B) condition is
applied that signifies the presence of a treatment- independent variable (Cooper 2020). Lastly, it returns
to (A) baseline data. An example of A-B-A reversal design could be used when working with my kiddo
when we are trying to determine the effectiveness of a token bored and the preferred reinforcement
during DTT. (A) baseline of using a token bored throughout session using less preferred items, (B)
implementing the use of a preferred reinforcement that is only used when completing a token bored,
then (A) using other items that hold less value.
Experimental designs consisting of treatment conditions rapidly alternated within or across
sessions or days, and that permit us to examine any emerging differences in the rates as a function of
each intervention, are identified by a number of different names, including multi-element (Mayer 2018).
Two or more conditions are changed to determine experimental control. An example of a Multielement
Design could be my kiddo having physical aggression behavior to get attention. To see what the most
effective treatment plan could be we would run a multielement design in which we compare the use of
extinction verses DRA.
