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| A contingency contract, also called a behavioral contract, is a document that specifies a contingent relation between the completion of a ______ and access to, or delivery of, a specified reward such as free time, a letter grade, or access to a favorite activity. |
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| Three major parts of every contingency contract |
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1) A description of the task
2) A description of the reward
3) The task record |
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| Who, what, when, and HOW WELL should be specified here. |
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| Description of the reward |
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| Who, what, when and HOW MUCH should be specified here. |
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| A place for recording the progress of the contingency contract and providing interim rewards. |
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| Implementing a contract involves a complex package intervention of related positive and negative reinforcement contingencies and _____ behaviors that operate alone and together. |
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| _____ has been used widely in classroom, home, and clinical settings. |
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| Contracts have also been used to teach _____ to children. |
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| A self-contract is a contingency contract that an individual makes with herself, incorporating a self-selected task and reward as well as _____ of task completion and self-delivery of the reward. |
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| Three Components of a Token Economy |
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1) Specified list of target behaviors to be reinforced.
2) Tokens, or points, that participants receive for emitting target behaviors.
3) A menu of items or activities, privileges, and backup reinforcers from which participants choose and obtain by exchanging tokens they have earned. |
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| generalized conditioned reinforcers |
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| Tokens function as _____ because they have been paired with a wide variety of backup reinforcers. |
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| A level system is a type of token economy in which participants move up or down a _____ contingent on meeting specific performance criteria with respect to the target behaviors. |
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| Six Basic Steps for designing a Token Economy: |
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1) Selecting the tokens that will serve as a medium of exchange
2) identifying the target behaviors and rules
3) selecting a menu of backup reinforcers
4) establishing a ratio of exchange
5) writing procedures to specify when and how tokens will be dispensed and exchanged and what will happen if the requirements to earn a token are not met
6) field testing the system before full-scale implementation. |
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| When establishing a _____, decisions must be made regarding how to begin, conduct, maintain, evaluate, and remove the system. |
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| A group contingency is one in which a _____ is contingent on the behavior of one member of the group, the behavior of part of the group, or the behavior of everyone in the group. |
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| Group contingencies can be classified as independent, dependent and _____. |
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| Six Guidelines for implementing a group contingency |
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1) Choose a powerful reward.
2) Determine the behavior to change and any collateral behaviors that might be affected.
3) Set appropriate performance criteria.
4) Combine with other procedures when appropriate.
5) Select the most appropriate group contingency.
6) Monitor individual and group performance. |
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