The Process of Selectively Reinforcing Responses That Are Closer and Closer

question 42

Multiple Choice

The process of selectively reinforcing responses that are closer and closer approximations of some desired response is called

• A) stimulus discrimination.
• B) selection.
• C) shaping.
• D) step-wise conditioning.

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Definitions:

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