Psychologists use shaping because of which limitation of operant conditioning?
A. Punishment does not teach new responses, it only inhibits old ones.
B. Behaviors will extinguish if they are not reinforced occasionally.
C. One must wait for the organism's response before it can be rewarded or punished.
D. Operant procedures condition responses only to very specific stimuli.
Question 2
A tennis coach works with players to improve the accuracy of their backhand stroke with successive attempts to produce more hits on target each week of the season. The coach is using a form of conditioning known as
A. stimulus generalization.
B. shaping.
C. punishment.
D. discrimination.
Pavlov’s Salivary Conditioning Experiment (2 of 2)
Classical-Conditioning Activity
Punishment
Conditioning Example
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