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A System for Recording Individualized Behavioral Data in a Token Program1

Year: 1973
Type: article
Abstract: A data matrix system used to record and summarize individual behavioral data is described. The major characteristics of the system are: (1) it provides a place to record and summarize all patient token exchanges, whether for standard contingencies or for idiosyncratic behavior; (2) it serves as a record and summary for time samples observed during a 24-hr period and as a record of reliability data on time sample measures; (3) it provides a place where the new token balance for each patient can be calculated and recorded for use the next day; (4) it provides for calculation of an individual patient's token balance at any given moment; and (5) it is a permanent record of each patient's daily participation in the program and documents progress in terms of his economic status as well as in changes in critical target behaviors.
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1969105102
FWCI: 1.452
Cites: 7
Cited by: 10
Related to: 10