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toc = Definition: = A systematic process for administering reinforcement, p. 147 Gen Psych Chapter 5 pp. 147-148

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=In the News:= Variable-Interval Reinforcement Schedules FTW Ever since I discovered Twitter, I've been trying to stop using it. I've redirected it to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file, placed special anti-Twitter admonitions at 127.0.0.1 so I would see them, plus declared brief Twitter diets and Twitter fasts. With Reddit and Hacker News, it's worse. After getting nowhere with hosts-file bans, I've deleted accounts, thrown away passwords, and deliberately antagonized entire userbases. [] Here is an abstract of a paper titled: A Comparison of Five Reinforcement Schedules for Use in Contingency Management-Based Treatment of Methamphetamine Abuse One variation of contingency management involves providing vouchers with monetary value for the provision of a biological sample indicating no recent drug use. These vouchers can be exchanged for goods or services. The schedule with which the vouchers are disbursed has been studied and results suggest that those schedules that incorporate escalating magnitude of reinforcement for consecutive instances of abstinence and a reset contingency, which reduces the value of the vouchers for instances of use, seem to provide the best treatment outcome. In this paper we explore several other scheduling arrangements while using the escalating schedule with a reset contingency as the comparator. The comparator schedule generally outperformed the other schedules in initiating and in maintaining abstinence from methamphetamine. Unfortunitly the whole paper is not available. []

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