Complex circus acts involving animals are often shaped by first training the behavior that will produce the primary reinforcer (such as food), then training the behavior that will immediately precede it, and so on until a complex series of behaviors has been established. This procedure is known as
a. progressive chaining.
b. successive approximations.
c. backward chaining.
d. successive behavioral ordering.
c. backward chaining.
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