By Changing the Rules About What Makes a Successful Response

question 82

Multiple Choice

By changing the rules about what makes a successful response, we can gradually, through successive approximations, train an animal or a person to make a chain of responses or to improve a skill. This process is called

• A)shaping.
• B)respondent conditioning.
• C)latent learning.
• D)vicarious classical conditioning.

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