Assignment: Token Economy
At this point in the course, you have learned about various evidence-based instructional strategies, including shaping, chaining, and task analysis. You have also learned about specific behavior change procedures, including various antecedent interventions and consequence interventions. You have also studied in-depth use of rules, contingency contracts and token economies in the realm of promoting behavior change.
For this Assignment, you will be asked to design your own token economy system. Use your work from your discussion post and Seminar to assist you in this creative process.
Be sure to clearly describe the following components:
• The tokens you will use;
• The target behaviors and how tokens will be earned;
• How you will make your system specific or individualized;
• The menu of backup reinforcers;
• The ratio of exchange and how you derived it;
• The procedures to dispense and exchange tokens;
• The procedures to follow when token requirements are not met, and your thoughts on the use of response cost;
• A discussion on the fading procedures and how the fading procedures promote maintenance and generalization of the target behaviors;
• A discussion the ethical, legal, individual, practical and social validity concerns or issues that might apply.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.