Episode 195 - Under the Hood of Token Economies w/ Dr. Jason Bourret

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

We all love token economies. The Sponge Bob stickers, the laminated construction paper backing. But, how do they actually work? Something about conditioned reinforcers, right? This week Dr. Jason Bourret joins us for a peek under the hood of token economies to give us some guidance into their inner workings and ways to effectively troubleshoot their usage.

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Articles discussed this episode:

Glodowski, K.R., Bourret, J., Ivy, J.W., Seaver, J.P., Jackson, J., Stine, J.M., & Nuzzolilli, A.E. (2020). A comparison of token and tandem schedules of reinforcement on response patterns for adolescents with autism. Behavioral Interventions, 35, 25-37. doi: 10.1002/bin.1704

Jwaideh, A.R. (1973). Responding under chained and tandem fixed-ration schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 19, 259-267. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1973.19-259

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.
0:20.2	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as
0:22.3	always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hey, Robert's Jackie. Hey, Santa. Oh, boy, guys. So we're here.
0:30.4	We're talking about behavior analysis, behavior analytic research. You know, we do it every week.
0:35.1	It's something we enjoy doing. It's a lot of fun.
0:38.0	And, you know, we're getting close to our 200th episode.
0:40.6	We've been doing this podcast for, you know, I think like six years at this point.
0:44.8	So I was taking a trip down memory lane.
0:47.3	You know, I was revisiting some of our older episodes.
0:49.7	I was thinking all about token economies.
0:53.1	And I know we sort of talked about token economies.
0:54.9	Dinah, what number was that?
0:56.8	176.
0:57.7	176. And we had a lot of fun. We talked about, you know, strip mining, our favorite topic.
1:02.9	That's not behavior analysis. We talked about school token economies.
1:06.6	The prison system.
1:07.2	Token economies in the prison system. But you know what we didn't really talk about?
1:11.8	How token economies work?
1:13.6	It was sort of a given, like, look, here they are, token economies.
1:17.9	You can use them.
1:18.6	You can do what you like with them.
1:19.7	And then that's it.
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