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| Tangible objects, activities, or privileges that serve as reinforcers and that can be purchased with tokens. |
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| Another name for a contingency contract. |
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| A mutually agreed upon document between parties (e.g., parent and child) that specifies a contingent relationship between the completion of specified behavior(s) and access to specified reinforcer(s). |
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| dependent group contingency |
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| A contingency in which reinforcement for all members of a group is dependent on the behavior of one member of the group or the behavior of a select group of members within the larger group. |
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A contingency in which reinforcement for all members of a group is dependent on the behavior of
(a) a person within the group
(b) a select group of members within the larger group
OR (c) each member of the group meeting a performance criterion |
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| Another term for a dependent group contingency (i.e., a person earns a reward for the group). |
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| independent group contingency |
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| A contingency in which reinforcement for each member of a group is dependent on that person's meeting a performance criterion that is in effect for all members of the group. |
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| interdependent group contingency |
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| A contingency in which reinforcement for all members of a group is dependent on each member of the group meeting a performance criterion that is in effect for all members of the group. |
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| A component of some token economy systems in which participants advance up (or down) through a succession of levels contingent on their behavior at the current level. The performance criteria and sophistication or difficulty of behaviors required at each level are higher than those of preceding levels; as participants advance to higher levels, they gain access to more desirable reinforcers, increased privileges, and greater independence. |
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| Contingency contract that a person makes with himself, incorporating a self-selected task and reward as well as personal monitoring of task completions and self-delivery of the reward. |
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| An object that is awarded contingent on appropriate behavior and that serves as the medium of exchange for backup reinforcers. |
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| A system whereby participants earn generalized conditioned reinforcers (e.g., tokens, chips, points) as an immediate consequence for specific behaviors; participants accumulate tokens and exchange them for items and activities from a menu of backup reinforcers. |
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