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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF REINFORCEMENT, RESPONSE COST, AND MIXED PROGRAMS ON CLASSROOM BEHAVIORS1

Abstract

Six elementary school children served as subjects in an experiment comparing the relative effectiveness of (1) token reinforcement , in which children received tokens for attending and for correct arithmetic performance; (2) response cost , in which children received “free” tokens at the start of a period but lost them for inattention and for arithmetic performance below a specified level; and (3) a combination of both token reinforcement and …

Authors

Hundert J

Journal

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 107–107

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

3 1976

DOI

10.1901/jaba.1976.9-107

ISSN

0021-8855