Education and Treatment of Children ( IF 1.096 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 , DOI: 10.1007/s43494-020-00014-2 Andressa A. Sleiman , Alison M. Betz , Catalina N. Rey , Abigail L. Blackman
Token economies are an effective behavior-management tool used across multiple populations and settings. However, researchers have shown that several variables may impact its effectiveness (Hackenberg 2009, 2018). One variable within a token economy that has not been thoroughly studied is token manipulation or the extent to which the learner physically manipulates a tangible token. Thus, the current study compared the effectiveness of a token economy when participants physically manipulated tokens (token manipulation) to when the experimenter manipulated the tokens (no manipulation). In addition, we evaluated participant preference between the two conditions (i.e., token manipulation and no manipulation). The results showed higher rates of the target response during the no token manipulation condition for one participant, while no differences were observed for the other two participants. Two participants preferred the token manipulation condition, whereas the other participant showed no preference.
中文翻译:
代币操纵对自闭症儿童实施代币经济中的响应的影响
代币经济是一种有效的行为管理工具,可用于多个人群和环境。然而,研究人员表明,几个变量可能会影响其有效性(Hackenberg 2009,2018)。代币经济中尚未深入研究的一个变量是代币操纵或学习者实际操纵有形代币的程度。因此,当前的研究比较了参与者实际操作令牌(令牌操作)与实验者操作令牌(不操作)时令牌经济的有效性。此外,我们评估了两个条件(即令牌操作和无操作)之间的参与者偏好。结果显示,在没有令牌操作的情况下,一名参与者的目标响应率更高,而其他两个参与者没有发现差异。两名参与者更喜欢令牌操作条件,而另一名参与者则没有偏好。