You are trying to teach your nephew how to write his name, Noah, and you have learned from your psychology class that positive reinforcement should help you to teach Noah this new behavior. Since Noah is just learning to write you decide to reward him at first for being able to write an N. Once he has learned this, you reward him after he writes an O. You continue teaching Noah this way until he
is able to write his entire name neatly. According to Skinner you are using what procedure to teach Noah?
A. shaping
B. classical conditioning
C. extinction
D. habituation
E. intermittent reinforcement
A. shaping
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