Question

You clap with delight when your young son picks up a spoon. you laugh and applause when he later brings the spoon toward his mouth. when he places the spoon in his mouth you hug and kiss him all over. it is most likely that you _____.

Answer 1

It is most likely that you are utilizing "shaping" to train your child to eat with a spoon.Shaping is a conditioning paradigm utilized principally in the experimental examination of conduct. The strategy utilized is differential support of progressive approximations. It was presented by B. F. Skinner with pigeons and later expanded to puppies, dolphins, people and different species.