PSYB45H3 Chapter 22: Chapter 22
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Strengthen clients" desirable behaviour that occur too infrequently. Decrease their undesirable behaviours in a structured treatment environment/educational setting. Something delivered to a person immediately after a desirable behaviour. Later exchanged for backup reinforcers chosen b/c they are knjown to be powerful reinforcers for the clients in the treatment environment. B/c it"s paired with other reinforcers, it becomes a conditioned reinforcer that strengthens the desirable behaviour it follows: essential components of token economy: The token to be used as conditioned reinforcers. The backup reinforcers to be exchanged for the tokens. The rate at which token are exchanged for the backup reinforcers. A time and place for exchanging tokens for backup reinforcers. Optional: a response cost component in which the undesirable tbs to be eliminated are identified, together with the rate of token loss for each instance of these behaviours. Implementing a token economy: defining the tbs. Identify and define the desirable behaviours to be reinforced.
