According to your text, what should be the first step in the ...

[bucstennis@aim.com]

According to your text, what should be the first step in the process of shaping?
 
  a. Provide reinforcement as steps are mastered
  b. Identify the target behavior
  c. Identify a starting point or initial approximation
  d. Reinforce the learner for engaging in the approximation

Question 2

When administering a test, an examiner generally obtains a basal level for the student. This is
 
  A. the point below which the examiner can assume that the student could obtain all correct responses and where the examiner generally begins testing the student.
  B. the point above which the examiner can assume that the student could obtain all incorrect responses and where the examiner generally stops testing the student.
  C. the point where every student of a particular age must begin testing.
  D. the first question in each individual subtest.

[kiamars2010]

Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

A

[bucstennis@aim.com]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[diana chang]

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