Question: ICS Part 1: Behavioral Contract and Token Economy
In this Instructor Contact Session, you will hear your instructor talk about behavioral contract and token economy. Listen to the lecture and take notes. Then post a substantive response to the following discussion question:
Describe how you could use a behavioral contract with a token economy program. Provide an example of combining these two behavior change procedures and then identify whether such a combination is appropriate.
Response Guidelines
Read the posts of your peers and respond to two. Your responses should be substantive and demonstrate your understanding of the material. What aspects of the post do you like or agree with? Are there areas that are not clear? Did the post spark questions that you would like to ask your peer? In this, and in all of your courseroom posts, be sure to keep your tone scholarly, respectful, and professional.
ICS Part 2: The Case of Chad
In this Instructor Contact Session, you will hear your instructor talk about self-instructional training. Listen to the lecture and take notes. Then post a substantive response to the following discussion question:
In the case study of Chad (page 524 in the Miltenberger text), Chad is a 22-year old man with mild intellectual disability. He has good verbal abilities and can easily carry on a conversation and understand complex directions. Chad works in a factory. He does his job well, but he has been caught stealing from other workers'' lockers. The problem occurs during work breaks or at other times when he is alone near the lockers. At these times, he opens co-workers'' lockers and takes cans of soda or change that he uses to buy soda from a vending machine. He will lose his job if he does not stop stealing. When caught stealing, he says he is sorry and promises not to do it again, but the problem continues.
Briefly describe how you would conduct self-instructional training with Chad to help him stop stealing from co-workers. Second, describe one other behavioral modification procedure that you have learned in this course that could be used in conjunction with self-instructions to help Chad stop stealing money and soda from co-workers'' lockers.
Reference
Miltenberger, R. G. (2016). Behavior modification: Principles and procedures (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.