A healthy-eating program requires participants to monitor their vegetable consumption and to increase the number of vegetables they eat. The program sets a target for the number of vegetables a participant is required to eat each day, and the target number is changed every week. Although the target moves up and down, it gradually increases toward a goal of eight servings of vegetables daily after
six weeks. Suppose this program were evaluated using a single-subject design. Which design would be appropriate?
a. ABAB design
b. multiple-baseline design
c. alternating-treatments design
d. changing-criterion design
d
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a. stressor c. behavior b. emotion d. apperception