To teach a child to eat spaghetti neatly, you would reinforce initial responses, such as holding the fork, and then reinforce increasingly closer approximations to the final response, a procedure known as

a. counter conditioning.
b. secondary conditioning.
c. desensitization.
d. shaping.


D

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