PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Economy 7, Token Economy
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Steps for setting up and managing a token economy. Tokens: conditioned reinforcers that can be exchanged for goods/services. When a desirable behavior is exchange for backup reinforcer is called token economy generalized (do not depend on specific mo) and bridge gap in delays. Can be used in varies settings, extend to various community settings to decrease littering and noise pollution as well as to increase waste recycling, energy conservation etc. Decide on target behavior: determined by type of individual involved, short and long range objectives to accomplish, and specific behavior problem that interfere with achieving those objective. Take baselines and keep data: base data before putting token economy see program effect thus continue collecting data on the target behaviors and comparing it to baseline. Select type of tokens to use: marks, poker chips etc. Select backup reinforcers: not limited to those that can be delivered immediately following a desired response, could be privileges even.
