PSYC 4030 Chapter 9: Chapter 9
13 Feb 2019
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Combining reinforcement and punishment: token economy, contingency contract, and. What is a token economy: a token economy is a system for motivating clients to perform desirable behaviors and to refrain from performing undesirable behaviors. Lancaster set up an elaborate token reinforcement system to motivate students" learning: united states were using token reinforcement to promote learning and foster appropriate classroom behaviors, with chronic psychiatric disorders, developed by teodoro ayllon and nathan azrin in. 1961 at anna state hospital in southern illinois. A token economy consists of four basic elements: a list of acceleration and deceleration target behaviors, including the number of tokens that clients can earn or lose for performing each. The community training center: a token economy for patients with chronic psychiatric. Disorders: the goal of the program was to prepare the patients, called trainees, for independent living in the community. The trainees had been hospitalized for an average of more than 8 years.
