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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