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azncindy619 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Give a novel (i.e., an example not provided in the text or in class discussion) example of shaping new performance across each of the following dimensions of behavior: topography, frequency, latency, duration, and amplitude.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What is a successive approximation?

What will be an ideal response?

Harbringer · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

should be consistent with the definitions of each of the following: topography (gradually changing the form of a behavior), frequency (gradually changing the number of responses per unit of time required), latency (gradually increasing or decreasing the time between the onset of an antecedent stimulus and the occurrence of the behavior), duration (gradually increasing or decreasing the total elapsed time for the occurrence of the behavior), and amplitude

Answer to Question 2

A successive approximation is an intermediate behavior that is either a prerequisite for the terminal behavior or a higher order member of the same response topography as the terminal behavior.