Shaping teaches a desire response by reinforcing a series of successfully improving steps leading to the final goal response.
*Skinner believed that shaping explains a wide variety of skills. For example playing an instrument or driving a car.
**Another example, as discussed in class, would be a baby's first steps learning to walk. The first step, the parent claps. As the baby begins to take the next step the parent elicits the desired response by pausing and waiting for the next step, then clapping again once completed.
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