Ring BM, Sigurdsson SO, Eubanks SL, Silverman K. Reduction of classroom noise levels using group contingencies.
J Appl Behav Anal 2014;
47:840-4. [PMID:
25175843 DOI:
10.1002/jaba.155]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2013] [Accepted: 04/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
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.
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