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  • Shaping uses reinforcement to create new behaviors that would not occur spontaneously.
  • Shaping involves creating a new behavior by successively rewarding closer and closer approximations to the desired behavior.
    • You begin by reinforcing any behavior that is at all similar to the behavior to be learned.
    • Later, you reinforce only responses that are closer to the desired behavior.
    • Finally, you reinforce only the desired response.
  • Shaping can be used to train both animals and people to perform complex behaviors.







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