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Dennis has disorganized type of schizophrenia. He has lived in an institution for years. He rarely shows any attempt at socializing. A new program is started-every time Dennis speaks to another person he is given a piece of red paper. At the end of each week, he can use the red papers to get cigarettes or extra privileges. This new program is?

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a token economy.

Step-by-step explanation:

Token economy: In psychology, the term token economy is referred to as a type of behavior modification technique that is being designed to decrease or reduce the undesirable behavior and increase the desirable behavior by using tokens. The process of token economy involves an individual getting the tokens after he or she displays a desirable behavior, and after receiving these tokens the person can exchange it with a meaningful privilege or object.

In the question above, the statement signifies the token economy program.

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