You are consulting with a care provider who is implementing shaping to teach a young adult to brush her own hair. The care provider asks you if you think he is changing his criteria for reinforcement too quickly, too slowly, or just right. You ask him to see his graph of the child's performance. He shows it to you. What will you look for in order to answer his question? How will the data
influence your answer?
What will be an ideal response?
The consultant should look at the trends in the data. If steady progress toward the terminal behavior is observed, then the care giver is probably increasing criteria for reinforcement at the correct pace. If a large number of errors is occurring, then the pace is probably too fast. If there appears to be a long period of time where the previously-reinforced response occurs each time the response criteria are increased, then the pace of increasing criteria is probably too slow.
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