Fed Up with His Son Not Cleaning Around the House,Jack

question 53

Multiple Choice

Fed up with his son not cleaning around the house,Jack buys a book called Shape Up,which instructs the reader to implement the operant conditioning technique of shaping.According to the book,Jack will want to ____.

• A) reinforce successive approximations of the desired response
• B) utilize a mixture of punishment and reinforcement
• C) pair an unconditioned response with a conditioned one
• D) reward his son only after the final desired response is performed

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