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 using a variable ratio reinforcement technique using shaping to teach your son to eat with a spoon rewarding your son on a continous reinforcement pattern using a partial reinforcmenet schedule pattern?

Answer 1

It is most likely that you "are using shaping to teach your son to eat with spoon".

Shaping is the way toward reinforcing progressively consistently nearer approximations to a coveted terminal conduct. The shaping of conduct begins at an early age. For instance, a youngster figures out how to pull itself up, to remain, to walk and to at long last move about through fortification of marginally uncommon occurrences of practices. Strolling doesn't really fall into place for a youngster, however through subtle reinforcements of having the capacity to achieve a toy or move all the more autonomously, the tyke's conduct is shaped.