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The Token Economy

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A token economy is a system in which secondary reinforcers are earned for target behaviors and later exchanged for primary ones.

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A classroom awards points for completed work that are exchanged weekly for chosen privileges.

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Token economies work while the exchange holds. Behavior often reverts when the tokens stop meaning anything.

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