PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Token Economy, Merit System
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A token economy is a complex system of consequences that is usually applied to change a wide range of behaviors in groups of people. Token economies used mainly in organizational and institutional settings. Setting up a token economy involves choosing the tokens and the backup reinforcers and punishers to be used. It entails assigning staff to administer consequences as well as deciding the number of tokens a behavior will earn, the exchange availability and rates for reinforcers, and whether individual or group contingencies will be used. Phasing out a token economy can promote the maintenance of the improved behavior by using methods that thin and delay reinforcement and assuring that antecedents and consequences in the target person"s everyday life will encourage the improved behavior. Achievement place: a residential token economy in which teaching parents" supervised the behavior of pre-delinquent juveniles using an approach called the teaching family model.
