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Glossary of chap 8
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- reinforcer that can be purchased w/ tokens in a token economy
- back-up reinforcer
- symbolic reinforcers (money and points) that clients earn for performing adaptive behaviors and lose for performing maladaptive ones
- tokens
- system for motivating clients in which they earn token reinforcers for adaptive behaviors and lose tokens for maladaptive behaviors; the tokens are exchanged for back-up reinforcers
- Token Economy
Joseph Lancaster: in the beginning of the 19th c. he set up an elaborate token reinforcement system to motivate students\' learning
As we know it today, the token economy began with a program for hospitalized patients w/ chronic disorders, and was developed in 1961 by:
Teodoro Ayllon and Nathan Azrin - treatment package taught to parents, consisting of acceleration and deceleration behavior therapy procedures to effectively manage their child\'s behavioral problems
* Positive reinforcement including differential reinforcement and time-out are the ma - Behavioral Child Management Training
- written agreement among the client, the therapist, and other change agents that specifies the relationship between target behaviors and their consequences
- contingency contract
