Question

Dave invites a friend over to play a video game and watch the new trick he taught his pet ferret. while playing football, dave scores a touchdown and gives a signal to the ferret. the ferret runs over to its cage and "kicks" a miniature football through a small goal post set up in the cage. dave probably used _____ to get the ferret to perform this trick.

Answer 1

Dave is likely using shaping to get Ferret to perform the trick. Shaping is defined as a conditioning paradigm which individuals engage to in a way of conducting an experimental analysis in terms of a behavior. This method is being used in differential reinforcements in regards to successive approximations.