Improving descriptions of single-subject experiments in research texts written for undergraduates.
Many undergraduate research methods texts assume that single-subject experiments are (a) low in generality, (b) merely pilot studies, (c) unsuitable when treatment effects are gradual or irreversible, (d) only useful when multiple-treatment interference is low, and (e) questionable because tests of...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Record Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 49 - 67 |
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Psychological Record
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