Description
This is a graduate paper. 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 this week 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 of the ethical, legal, individual, practical, and social validity concerns or issues that might apply.
The Assignment should:
Be at least 5–7 pages in length. The 5–7 pages length does not include the title page and reference page.
In addition, a minimum of three peer-reviewed primary sources should be used to show support for your selected methods of behavior change.
Follow Assignment directions (review grading rubric for best results).
Use correct Ace homework tutors – APA formatting per the Ace homework tutors – APA Publication Manual, 6th Edition.
Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard American English.
Be written in Standard American English and be clear, specific, and error-free. If needed, be sure to use the Writing Center for help.
