Psych350 Learning and Memory

An exploration of how humans acquire and remember new information, associations and skills with Professor Vivian Ciaramitaro

11/20/2013
by hiumeichow001
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Helping juvenile offenders with instrumental learning

A blog post submission by one of you earlier:
This article describes how instrumental learning is used to help teens who are at risk ‘juvenile offenders’. The program use positive reinforcement and constant feedback to encourage the teens. they are also using something called the token economy which is mentioned in the book, and the point of the token economy is to positively reinforce their behavior. The article goes into greater detail describing how this works all together to modify or change the behavior of these students for the better:
Here is the link:
http://www.tullahomanews.com/?p=19867
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