What Did B.F.Skinner Mean by "Shaping"?​

question 92

Multiple Choice

What did B.F.Skinner mean by "shaping"?​

• A)Start by training a simple response and work up to more complex ones.
• B)Show the animal an example of the response and let it imitate.​
• C)Mold the animal's body into the right position to make the response.​
• D)​Change the outcome of the response unpredictably from one time to the next.

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