Animal Trainers Using Operant Conditioning Techniques to Slowly Condition a New

question 32

Multiple Choice

Animal trainers using operant conditioning techniques to slowly condition a new behavior by reinforcing successive approximations of the new desired behavior are engaged in ____.

• A) habituation
• B) conditioning
• C) learning
• D) shaping

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