To Teach a Child to Eat Spaghetti Neatly, You Would

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Multiple Choice

To teach a child to eat spaghetti neatly, you would reinforce initial responses, such as holding the fork, and then reinforce increasingly closer approximations to the final response, a procedure known as

• A) counter conditioning.
• B) secondary conditioning.
• C) desensitization.
• D) shaping.

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