1. How do you study the effects of brain damage to the hippocampus?

3. Or “genius?”

5. S-S research is not a “case study” approach
Rigorously controlled
Systematic effort to determine cause
Efforts to rule out rival hypothesis
Efforts to assess external validity
Emphasis on quantitative measures rather than subjective assessment

6. Hermann Ebbinghaus

7. Validity of Nonsense syllable learning?

8. You should know who this is.

9. Why did Skinner advocate study of the individual?

10. Cumulative recorder

11. Argued that study of the individual is the only meaningful way to study behavior.

12. You can take any idea a bit too far can’t you.

13. Basic Reversal Designs: ABA… don’t confuse with ABBA within group designs
Baseline
Intervention
reversal

14. Basic reversal design

15. Reversal Designs cont’
Therapeutic end-points?
ABAB designs

16. Basic reversal design

17. Reversal designs Intra subject replication-causality
Inter subject replication external validity

18. Issues for Reversal designs
Baseline stability
Criteria for “change”
Criteria for reversal
partial reversal?

19. What if you can’t reverse?

21. Baseline drift

22. Small-n designs in brain studies

23. Cumulative records of neural activity

24. What about situations where you would not want to reverse an effective treatment?
MBDs

27. Consider the classroom environment

28. Contingency analysis

30. Consider your home environment

31. Consider the scientific environment

32. Small-n designs in behavior studies