Chapter 20: Shaping

Question 1

A term popularized by Pryor (1999) for shaping behavior using conditioned reinforcement in the form of an auditory stimulus. A handheld device produces a click sound when pressed. The training pairs other forms of R+ (e.g. edibles) with the click sound so that the sound becomes a condited reinforcer.

Answer 1

Clicker Training

Question 2

reinforcing only those responses with in a response class that meet a specific criterion along the same dimensions (i.e. s\frequency, topography, duration latency or magnitude) and placing all other response in the class on extinction (DRA, DRI, DRO, discrimination training, shaping)

Answer 2

Differential reinforcement

Question 3

a behavior change produced by differential reinforcement: reinforced members of the current response class occur with greater frequency and unreinforced members occur less frequently (undergo extinction) the overall result is the emergence of a new response class

Answer 3

Response differentiation

Question 4

Using differential reinforcement to produce a series of gradually changing response classes each response class is a successive approximation toward a terminal behavior. Members of the existing response class are selec4ed for differential reinforcement because they more closely resemble the terminal behavior

Answer 4

Shaping

Question 5

the sequence of new response classes that emerge during the shaping process as the result of differential reinforcement each successive response class is closer in the form to the terminal behavior than the response class it replaces

Answer 5

Successive approximation