Author Question: At the Willow Ranch Treatment Center, therapists seek to increase adaptive behavior by rewarding ... (Read 71 times)

HudsonKB16 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

At the Willow Ranch Treatment Center, therapists seek to increase adaptive behavior by rewarding residents
with poker chips for performing appropriate behaviors such as self-grooming and making their beds.

The
residents are able to exchange the chips for various privileges ; for example, a trip to the movie theatre. In
behavior therapy, this poker chip system would be called_____________ .
a. a token economy
b. a task exchange
c. a behavioral hierarchy
d. a reinforcement economy

Question 2

With _________procedures, people seeking to overcome phobias put themselves in situations in which they engage fearful stimuli in real-life encounters.

a. gradual exposure
b. modeling
c. systematic desensitization
d. flooding