Methoden vergleichen

	Blocked AB Design	ABAB-Design – Reversal-/Withdrawal-Design
Fachgebiet	Versuchsplanung	Versuchsplanung
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1970s–1980s (systematic development of blocked randomization in single-case research)	1960s (Sidman 1960; Baer et al. 1968)
Urheber	Based on Fisher's randomized block principle (1926) applied to single-case AB designs	Murray Sidman; Baer, Wolf & Risley (applied behavior analysis formalization)
Typ	Single-subject experimental design with blocking	Single-subject experimental design
Wegweisende Quelle	Edgington, E., & Onghena, P. (2007). Randomization Tests (4th ed.). Chapman and Hall/CRC. ISBN: 978-1584885894	Sidman, M. (1960). Tactics of Scientific Research: Evaluating Experimental Data in Psychology. Basic Books.
Aliasnamen	blocked AB single-case design, randomized block AB design, AB design with blocking, blocked baseline-treatment design	reversal design, withdrawal design, ABAB reversal, operant reversal design
Verwandt	6	4
Zusammenfassung	The Blocked AB Design applies the logic of randomized block experimental design to the classic single-subject AB framework. Observation sessions are organized into blocks — matched sets of time points or contextual units — and the assignment of baseline (A) and treatment (B) phases is randomized within each block. This controls for nuisance time-based variability while preserving the interpretive simplicity of the fundamental two-phase single-case structure.	The ABAB design is a single-subject experimental methodology that establishes causal control by repeatedly introducing and removing an intervention. A baseline phase (A) is followed by an intervention phase (B), then a return to baseline (A), and a second intervention phase (B), allowing the researcher to demonstrate that observed behavior changes are produced by the intervention rather than by coincidental factors.