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response cost  

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  • Response cost is the taking away of positive reinforcers from an individual's pool of available reinforcers when a specific undesirable behavior occurs. Example: To try to cure a boy of playing with matches, each time the boy strikes a match, one penny is removed from a stack of pennies he had been given previously. [Source: The Dictionary of Family Psychology and Family Therapy; response cost]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-ZB6P38R0-H

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