Episode 175 - Token Economies in Action

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

While token economies may be one of the earliest well-known examples of applied behavior analysis in practice, this may have led to two larger issues: overreliance and misunderstanding. This week, we review some older articles leveraging token economy technology in applied areas both old (classroom behavior!) and new (mining!) to see whether everything is as rose-colored as we might have remembered it.

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Articles discussed this episode:

McLaughlin, T.F. & Malaby, J. (1972). Intrinsic reinforcement in a classroom token economy. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 5, 263-270. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1972.5-263

Bassett, J.E. & Blanchard, E.B. (1977). The effect of the absence of close supervision on the use of response cost in a prison token economy. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 10, 375-379. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1977.10-375

Fox, D.K., Hopkins, B.L., & Anger, W.K. (1987). The long-term effects of a token economy on safety performance in open-pit mining. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 20, 215-224. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1987.20-215

Zlomke, K. & Zlomke, L. (2003). Token economy plus self-monitoring to reduce disruptive classroom behaviors. The Behavior Analyst Today, 4, 177-182. doi: 10.1037/h0100117

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0:19.9	I'm your host Robert Perry
0:20.8	Cruz and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hey Rob, it's Dana. And it's me, it's me, it's
0:27.9	Jackie. Oh boy, you guys, I'm excited because we are recording this episode in a brand
0:32.9	new location. We're in our brand new room.
0:39.2	It's, you know, it's, we're going to call it the studio, though it is just, the game
0:42.9	room.
0:43.5	The game room.
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0:46.1	I'm real jealous.
0:47.0	I want everyone to know out in podcast land that when Rob took a picture of this room
0:52.6	and sent it to my husband because they're friends.
0:55.9	Rob's not just friends with me.
0:57.8	And he sent a picture to my husband.
0:59.7	He's like, look at this room.
1:00.6	And I was like, why don't we do anything to our house?
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1:06.9	This room used to be a storage room.
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