TE
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- Created on: 11-04-23 16:51
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- Operant conditioning and token economy
- token economy
- Based on operant conditioning, it involves reinforcing desirable behaviour with a token exchanged for a reward
- Tokens are secondary reinforcers because they derive their value from their association with a reward
- Based on operant conditioning, it involves reinforcing desirable behaviour with a token exchanged for a reward
- The behaviourist approach is that all human behaviour is learned, therefore we can unlearn a behaviour the same way we learnt it, by applying the same principles that brought it about in the first place
- Behaviour modification programmes are designed with the aim of reinforcing obedient behaviour in offenders, whilst punishing the disobedience, in hope that the fromer cotinues and tatter dies out.
- Changing behaviour
- The desireable behaviour is broken down into increments and everyone who comes into contact with them must follow the same selective reinforcement.
- STRENGTHS
- HOBBS and HOLT introduced a TE programme accross 3 behavioural units.There was a significantly more positive behaviour shown in the TE groups.
- ALLYON and MILAN found the same positive effect in 1979
- HOBBS and HOLT introduced a TE programme accross 3 behavioural units.There was a significantly more positive behaviour shown in the TE groups.
- WEAKNESS
- COHEN and FILIPCJAK found a reduction in offending in 2 years but not 3.
- BLACKBURN concludes it has little real rehabilitation and does not prevent reoofending
- Many argue the rewards are basic human rights, therefore unethical
- BLACKBURN concludes it has little real rehabilitation and does not prevent reoofending
- COHEN and FILIPCJAK found a reduction in offending in 2 years but not 3.
- token economy
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