When animal trainers use operant conditioning techniques to slowly condition a new behavior by reinforcing successive approximations of the new desired behavior, the specific name for this is ____

a. ?habituation
b. ?conditioning
c. ?learning
d. ?shaping


ANSWER:
d

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