Token Economy - Evaluation
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- Token Economy - Evaluation
- Hobbs and Holt (1986)
- introduced token economy to delinquents across 3 institutions
- significant increase in targeted behaviour
- introduced token economy to delinquents across 3 institutions
- Sindelar
- Drug abusers were more likely to stay clean when the rewarded for good behavior
- Staff may abuse power to make their lives easier
- Not representative of real life as you don't get positively reinforced for good behavior
- Do not tackle the cause and may only work temporarily
- May be stronger positive reinforcers for bad behavior such as social approval
- Cheap to implement as staff don't need training
- Lipton et al (2002)
- meta-analysis
- behavior strategies were not as affected as cognitive interventions
- meta-analysis
- Petry et al (2006)
- entries into a prize draw as token for alcoholics
- Highly effective
- entries into a prize draw as token for alcoholics
- Hobbs and Holt (1986)
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