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Diane

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Which one of the following alternatives best describes shaping?
 
  a. Reinforcement becomes gradually stronger over time.
  b. Reinforcement is weaned away over time, until a student is doing something without being reinforced.
  c. The particular response being reinforced changes over time so that it increasingly resembles the desired behavior.
  d. Praise is the only reinforcer used, and the specific things that are said to a student change as the student improves.

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Mr. Johnson wants a hyperactive boy to be able to sit quietly for at least 15 minutes at a time. To do this, he begins praising the boy for sitting still for one minute, then for two minutes, and then only for four minutes, and so on.
 
  Mr. Johnson's strategy reflects which one of the following concepts?
   a. Shaping
   b. A contingency contract
   c. Distributed learning
   d. Intermittent reinforcement
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