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Haya94

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A young child has just learned to say ball as a result of shaping. How do you bring the child's behavior of saying ball under stimulus control of a ball?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

A researcher plans to implement a token economy with a group of juvenile offenders in a treatment program. What is the first step in planning a token economy?
 
  a. identifying items to use as tokens
 b. deciding on the schedule of reinforcement
  c. defining the target behavior
 d. identifying backup reinforcers



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Answer to Question 1

By providing a reinforcer when the child says ball only when a ball is present and not providing a reinforcer when the child says ball when a ball is not present.

Answer to Question 2

c



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