THE EFFECTS OF TOKEN PROCEDURES ON A TEACHERS SOCIAL CONTACTS WITH HER STUDENTS1
- 1 September 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Vol. 3 (3) , 169-174
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1970.3-169
Abstract
The effects of a token system on a teacher's rate of social contacts with her students were investigated in a public school kindergarten. A group of six children were observed daily during a 20-min handwriting lesson. The children were divided into two groups (A and B) of three children each. Five conditions were imposed sequentially: (1) baseline without tokens, (2) contingent tokens for Group A, noncontingent tokens for Group B, (3) contingent tokens for Group B, noncontingent tokens for Group A, (4) reinstatement of condition 2, and (5) contingent tokens for both groups. It was consistently observed that the teacher's rate of social contact was higher with the children receiving the contingent tokens than with those who received noncontingent tokens.Keywords
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