Which one of these statements about shaping is correct?
a. Experience indicates that food is the best reinforcer to use when shaping a behavior.
b. Shaping is the reinforcement of successive approximations at regular time intervals.
c. Shaping is a formal training procedure, but something like it occurs in the outside world.
d. The criteria for a successful response remains constant throughout the shaping procedure.
e. Shaping is a type of observational learning.
c. Shaping is a formal training procedure, but something like it occurs in the outside
world.
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A. ambient storage B. delayed retrieval C. selective encoding D. recursive automatization
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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