Mrs. Toledo knows that it is difficult for kindergarteners to perform all of the routines of the classroom perfectly right away. Thus, at the beginning of the year, she gives all of her students some stickers on the sticker board for correctly performing at least 3 out of the 12 tasks required in the classroom, even if they have not yet mastered the others. Slowly throughout the year, Mrs. Toledo increases the number of tasks that the students must perform in order to receive the stickers, and by the end of the year, the students perform all of the 12 tasks correctly and receive their stickers. In this scenario, what is Mrs. Toledo using to encourage her students to learn all of the tasks required?
What will be an ideal response?
Mrs. Toledo is using shaping by reinforcing successive approximations of the desired behaviors in her students.
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