Shaping Appropriate Verbal Responses in a Social Situation With a Withdrawn Retarded Adolescent
Institution: | North Texas State University |
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Year: | 1973 |
Keywords: | shaping; verbal conditioning |
Record ID: | 1493161 |
Full text PDF: | http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131618/ |
"Shaping" or "method of successive approximation" is a procedure which may be applied to increase the frequency of a response which has a low operant level, or it may also be used to bring about responses which have not been previously emitted. In "shaping," the experimenter initially reinforces a response which is within the behavorial repertoire of the subject. Then, the experimenter reinforces only responses which approximate the behavior which is desired. The final behavior is then directly reinforced.