Fed up with his son not cleaning around the house, Jack buys a book called Shape Up, which instructs the reader to implement the operant conditioning technique of shaping. According to the book, Jack will want to
A. reinforce successive approximations of the desired response.
B. utilize a mixture of punishment and reinforcement.
C. pair an unconditioned response with a conditioned one.
D. reward his son only after the final desired response is performed.
Answer: A
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