Jia Is a Bear Trainer at the Circus

question 11

Multiple Choice

Jia is a bear trainer at the circus.She wants to teach Barney the bear to ride a unicycle.To do this,Jia first rewards Barney for sitting up.Then she rewards Barney only if he sits on the unicycle seat.Next she rewards him only for sitting on the unicycle seat and raising his paws toward the pedals and so on.By show time,Barney can ride the unicycle.This method is called ____.

• A) higher-order conditioning
• B) reconditioning
• C) shaping
• D) latent learning