9 Shaping

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Shaping

differential reinforcements of successive[ approximations toward a target behavior

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Target Behavior

The form of behavior that meets our specified criterion

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Successive Approximations

small achievable steps that increase in complexity or difficulty toward the target behavior

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Differential Reinforcement

the process by which certain responses are not reinforced

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Differential Reinforcement involves

reinforcement and extinction

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The alternative to shaping is to

wait

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Essential Ingredient for selection is 

variability

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How our behavior is selected in our lifetime mirrors

how our behavior was selected in our evolutionary history

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shaping is an

ontogenetic parallel to phylogenetic selection

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Shaping can occur naturally

or artificially

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