PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Token Economy, Intellectual Disability, Literature Review
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Token economies: a behavioural program in which individuals can earn tokens for a variety of desirable behaviours and can exchange the earned tokens for backup reinforcers. Longstanding approach in behaviour modification: advantages: Tokens can be given immediately following desirable behaviour. Tokens can be paired with multiple different backup reinforcers (generalized conditioned reinforcers & its more desired than simple conditioned reinforcers) Useful for diverse groups, with different reinforcer preferences. Helps to address satiation, so people don"t have to be bored of the same reinforcer: used in many different types of settings. Family home parents giving tokens for chores. Learning about $, bringing math, savings, & etc. Setting up a token economy: decide on the target behaviour(s) - specific. Clearly defined and identifiable: gather baseline data. Can help with selecting backup reinforcers: select backup reinforcers. Use a wide variety b/c of gen conditioned reinforcer.