Author Question: Jerry is a professional football player who injured his knee while running during a game. Jerry has ... (Read 606 times)

jayhills49 · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Jerry is a professional football player who injured his knee while running during a game. Jerry has had surgery and his knee is fully healed, but he is afraid to put pressure on it because he doesn't want to re-injure it. The trainer implements a plan in which he first differentially reinforces standing, then walking, then jogging, and finally running at full speed. This is an example of using shaping to:

a. reinstate a previous behavior
b. change a dimension of an existing behavior
c. generate a novel behavior
d. increase an existing behavior

Question 2

It is believed that nervous habits serve to diminish ________________.

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word