You Read About a Program Designed to Help Patients in a Psychiatric

Multiple Choice

You read about a program designed to help patients in a psychiatric hospital take better care of themselves and their environment and engage in more positive social interactions. After engaging in specified behaviors, the patients are given plastic chips that can be exchanged later for rewards and privileges. Such systems are technically known as

A) self-reinforcement systems.
B) token economies.
C) verbal reinforcements.
D) reinforcement exchanges.