Which experimental design would you use if you were going to use evaluated an exercise program that involved gradually increasing the amount that you exercised in steps across weeks?

A) changing criterion design
B) multiple baseline across behaviors design
C) reversal design
D) alternating treatments design


A) changing criterion design
This is the experimental design in which an initial baseline phase is followed by a series of treatment phases consisting of successive and gradual changing criteria for reinforcement or punishment. Experimental control is evidenced by the extent the level of responding changes to conform to each new criterion.

Psychology

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