PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reinforcement, Gift Card, Operant Conditioning

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18 Apr 2013
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Target behavior: read chapters and attend/watch lectures. A token economy is a system of behavior modification-based on the systematic positive reinforcement of target behavior. The reinforcers are symbols or tokens that can be exchanged for other reinforcers. Token economy is based on the principles of operant conditioning and can be situated within applied behavior analysis (behaviorism). Token economies are applied with children and adults. Activity ~: you get more breaks in today"s class. Feedback ~: good job! for participating, your grade is posted. Sampling: samples. give them a little taste of the reward, they might be more likely to want the reward. Modeling: see another ppl get the chocolate, and you want that too through watching them enjoying the reinforcer. Public posting of performance: showing publicly this ppl did this and they got this. Publicly showing ppl that you"re doing a good job could be an incentive for all the ppl to follow doing that favorable behavior. public effect.

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