What Is Chaining in Operant Conditioning

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Multiple Choice

What is chaining in operant conditioning?

• A) reinforcement for successive approximations to a behavior
• B) the weakening of a response by the omission of a favorable stimulus that would otherwise be presented
• C) the concept that certain stimuli are readily associated with each other and that certain responses are readily associated with certain outcomes
• D) training a sequence of behaviors in which the reinforcement for one behavior is the opportunity to perform the next behavior

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