B F Skinner Was Able to Train a Pigeon to Make

question 229

Multiple Choice

B. F. Skinner was able to train a pigeon to make a complete counterclockwise circle by reinforcing successive approximations to this final goal in a process known as

• A) stimulus discrimination.
• B) stimulus generalization.
• C) extinction.
• D) shaping.

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