EAB Chap 8-11

Why are token economies desirable?

Motivationally robust, Nondisruptive, Fair compensation, portability and delay bridging.

How do you arrange effective conditioned reinforcement?

Use an effective backup reinforcer, use a salient CS, make the CS signal a large delay reduction, and use a nonredundant CS.

Principles of effective shaping

Objectively define the terminal behavior, identify your sequence of successive approximations, reinforce only responses closer to terminal behavior and extinguish all others, progress at an appropriate pace and reinforce a previous approximation if no progress is made.

Reinforcers can differ along four dimensions:

The consequence is contingent, the size and the quality is appropriate for the behavior, and the consequence is immediate.

Principles of effective punishment

Focusing on the reinforcer first, combining punishment with differential reinforcement and/or extinction, the delivery is immediate and contingent, punisher is given every time and is in the Goldilocks Zone.

Arranging Effective Conditioned Punishers

Backup punisher is effective, the conditioned punisher is salient, it signals a large delay reduction and is nonredundant.