Shaping in ABA
Lesson 22 of 36 in RBT Exam Prep. The start plays free here.
- Reinforce “w”
- Reinforce “wa”
- Reinforce “water”
- All 43 outline tasks
- 85 questions, 90 minutes
- Explains each wrong answer
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How the lesson starts
Your client is learning to say “water.” You begin by reinforcing “w.” Shaping reinforces successive approximations: responses that get closer to the target behavior.
Then, in the full lesson
- Why shape
- Move forward
- Reach the target
- Different procedures
- 2 questions along the way
A question from this lesson
You shaped drawing a circle by reinforcing curved marks. You now reinforce nearly closed circles. What should you do with curved marks alone?
- Reinforce them instead of nearly closed circles
- Keep reinforcing them alongside nearly closed circles
- Stop reinforcing them as the earlier approximation
Show the answer
C. Stop reinforcing them as the earlier approximation. Stop reinforcing the earlier approximation. Once a closer response earns reinforcement, the earlier one no longer does. Reinforcing both keeps the earlier response reinforced. Switching back reinforces the less-close response instead.
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- All 43 outline tasks
- 85 questions, 90 minutes
- Explains each wrong answer
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