Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Behavior Modification
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Kazdin, A. E.
Right arrow Articles by Geesey, S.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Kazdin, A. E.
Right arrow Articles by Geesey, S.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Enhancing Classroom Attentiveness by Preselection of Back-Up Reinforcers in a Token Economy

Alan E. Kazdin

Pennsylvania State UniversitY

Sally Geesey

Pennsylvania State UniversitY

The effects of different methods of selecting and exchanging back-up reinforcers are examined, with two mentally retarded children participating in a token economy in a special education class. In separate experiments each child received tokens contingent upon attentive behavior. The different methods of selecting and exchanging back-up reinforcers consisted of preselecting back-up events that were to be purchased in advance of earning the tokens versus selecting back-up events only after the requisite number of tokens had been earned. The two methods of selecting and exchanging back-up events were compared in separate simultaneous treatment designs for each child. The interventions were administered in the same phase, but balanced across the different time periods during which they were implemented. In each experiment preselecting back-up reinforcers prior to earning tokens led to higher levels of attentive behavior than did selecting back-up events after the tokens had been earned. Interpretations of the effects of preselecting back-up events that stressed the possible influence of making back-up events less remote in relation to the token-earning behaviors and the prompting function of the preselection procedure are discussed.

Behavior Modification, Vol. 4, No. 1, 98-114 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/014544558041006
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?