Question

When your young son picks up a spoon, you clap. You laugh and applaud when her later brings the spoon toward his mouth. When he places the spoon in his mouth you hug and kiss him over over. It is most likely that you are:______.a. using a variable ratio reinforcement technique.b. using shaping to teach your son to eat with a spoon.c. rewarding your son on a continous reinforcement pattern.d. using a partial reinforcmenet schedule pattern.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is option b. using shaping to teach your son to eat with a spoon.

Explanation:

Shaping is a conditioning strategy which is bought to use specifically when the behavior of species is to be analysed.

Differential reinforcement is used for the purpose of successive approximations. B.F,Skinner introduced this concept and experiments on animals and birds like pigeons, dogs, dolphins and eventually human beings.

The above question, you are shaping the activity of eating with a spoon to be a happy and appreciative act through constant applaud.