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Define shaping.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Give an example of shaping across a response topography and shaping within a response topography. Explain why your examples fall into each of these categories.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Shaping is the reinforcement of successive approximations to a terminal behavior.

Answer to Question 2

However, the example given for shaping across response topographies should include different forms of related behaviors that are part of the terminal response. The example given for shaping within the response topography should maintain the same form of behavior throughout, but should change along some other dimension



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