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Reduction of classroom noise levels using group contingencies
Author(s) -
Ring Brandon M.,
Sigurdsson Sigurdur O.,
Eubanks Sean L.,
Silverman Kenneth
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1002/jaba.155
Subject(s) - reinforcement , psychology , abstinence , noise (video) , intervention (counseling) , contingency management , token economy , applied psychology , medical education , social psychology , audiology , medicine , psychiatry , computer science , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics)
The therapeutic workplace is an employment‐based abstinence reinforcement intervention for unemployed drug users where trainees receive on‐the‐job employment skills training in a classroom setting. The study is an extension of prior therapeutic workplace research, which suggested that trainees frequently violated noise standards. Participants received real‐time graphed feedback of noise levels and had the opportunity to earn monetary group reinforcement for maintaining a low number of noise violations. Results suggested that feedback and monetary reinforcement reduced the number of noise violations.