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TOKEN ECONOMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of behavior therapy that has been used in some mental institutions; patients are rewarded with tokens for appropriate behavior and the tokens may be cashed in for valued rewards
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("token economy" is a kind of...):
behavior modification; behavior therapy (psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior)
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