Experimetal Psychology Report

1. Multiple Baseline
Design
Prepared by: Magadia, Kimberly B.

2. Learning Objectives:
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✔ Explain Multiple Baseline Design
✔ Learn when to use Multiple Baseline
Design
✔ Understand the advantages and
disadvantages of Multiple Baseline
Design

3. 1.What is Multiple Baseline
Design?

4. Definition
Multiple baseline design is an experimental
approach in which two or more behaviors are
assessed to determine their initial, stable
expression (i.e., baseline) and then an intervention
or manipulation is applied to one of the behaviors
while the others are unaffected.
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5. 2. When to use Multiple
Baseline Design?

6. Usage
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✔ Most widely used for evaluating treatment effects
in ABA
✔ Used to compare before and with treatment; use
other behaviors, situations, or subjects as
baselines
✔ Ideal for multiple behavior changes sought by
many practitioners

7. 3.What are the Advantages
and Disadvantages of
Multiple Baseline Design?

8. Advantages and
Disadvantages
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Advantages
✔ Establish a functional
relationship (without
reversing the intervention)
✔ Allows the examination of
one intervention on many
kids
Disadvantages
✔ Must implement across
settings, people, etc.
✔ Collect baseline over
extended period of time

9. Example and
Graph
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Example:
A math teacher conducted an
intervention program. He wants
to increase the multiplication
skills of four struggling students.

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