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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
    • 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
    • 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

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