A behavior therapist wants to reward a language delayed child for saying a new word, but rewards the child first for saying the first letter sound and then another letter sound, and so on. The language therapist is using
a. shaping.
b. stimulus control.
c. a hierarchy.
d. nonreinforcement.
A
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