Author Question: Sadie goes to an aerobics class on M, W, and F (on a good week). The aerobic routines they do have ... (Read 61 times)

mpobi80 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Sadie goes to an aerobics class on M, W, and F (on a good week). The aerobic routines they do have many, many steps and constitute behavioral chain. The aerobics teacher has everyone perform one step of the routine multiple times and asks, Does everyone get it? The students all yell, Yep Then, she says, Adding on and she shows them another step. Once they have that step down, she has them do the first step, followed by the second step. Then she adds on again. This process is repeated until the students are doing a very long, complex routine by the end of the hour. What teaching procedure does Sadie's aerobics instructor use?

a. Total task presentation
b. Forward chaining
c. Backward chaining
d. Stimulus shaping

Question 2

One advantage to backward chaining procedure is:

a. It is the only chaining procedure in which the student gets reinforced for completing the task.
b. It is the chaining procedure that results in the most immediate access to the reinforcer following the display of a correct response in the behavioral chain.
c. It doesn't rely on prompting procedures like the other chaining methods.
d. It doesn't rely on reinforcement procedures like the other chaining methods.