University of New South Wales.
J Appl Behav Anal. 1970 Spring;3(1):47-55. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1970.3-47.
A token reinforcement system for the reduction of institutionalized behavior in a chronic psychiatric ward is described. Quantitative assessments were made of the effects of the system on five types of positively reinforced behavior, two types of unreinforced behavior, and two types of fined behavior. To assess whether these effects were a function of the token procedures, three experiments were carried out, the first removing tokens for a brief period, the second making tokens non-contingent on behavior, and the third removing fines in one area while maintaining them in another. The token procedures were found to be the source of the observed improvements.
描述了一种代币强化系统，用于减少慢性精神病病房中的制度化行为。对系统对五种正强化行为、两种未强化行为和两种罚款行为的影响进行了定量评估。为了评估这些影响是否是代币程序的作用，进行了三项实验，第一项是短暂去除代币，第二项是使代币与行为无关，第三项是在一个区域取消罚款而在另一个区域保留罚款。结果发现，代币程序是观察到的改善的来源。
