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Single Subject Design. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Single-subject design or single-case research design is a research design most often used in applied fields of psychology, education, and human behavior in which the subject serves as his/her own control, rather than using another individual/group.
The major methodology of this approach is the single-case experiment, or N = 1 design. Although there are many kinds of N = 1 designs, the most common are the ABAB design and the multiple-baseline design. An ABAB design, or reversal design, allows a researcher to confirm a treatment effect by showing that behavior changes systematically with conditions of No Treatment (baseline) and Treatment.