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Group contingencies are a group of strategies to change the behavior of a group and/or individual using specific sets of rules. This strategy is highly applicable within a classroom of students in that only the group contingency must be learned and implemented rather than a variety of individual behavioral contingencies across students. The three types of group contingencies are summarized and examples of implementation for each are provided.
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Appendices
Appendix A: Independent Group Contingency
See Table 7.1.
Appendix B: Dependent Group Contingency Example
See Table 7.2.
Appendix C: Interdependent Group Contingency Example
See Table 7.3.
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Ré, T.C., Beaver, B.N. (2023). Group Contingencies. In: Quigley, J., Cassano, M.J., Ackerlund Brandt, J.A. (eds) Incorporating Applied Behavior Analysis into the General Education Classroom. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35825-8_7
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