G07 Use Shaping Part 2

Question 1

Which is likely to quickly and effectively teach how to swing a bat?

Answer 1

Instructions plus reinforcement of closer and closer approximations to holding and swinging a bat

Question 2

Clicker training

Answer 2

Pairs the clicker sound with an existing reinforcer so the clicker sound becomes a conditioned reinforcer.
Uses a distinct clicker sound as the reinforcer for shaping.
Is a shaping procedure used to establish complex performances in animals errorlessly and without verbal commands.

Question 3

Generally, shaping is used ONLY when

Answer 3

There is an existing behavior that can be shaped into the terminal behavior.

Question 4

You have identified 8 successive… an appropriate solution to this problem is to

Answer 4

Use prompting to evoke the 4th approximation.

Question 5

A student has a baseline average of completing 50 math problem correctly in 10 minutes, with a high score of 60. Which would be an appropriate shaping criterion if the target performance is 75 problems correct?

Answer 5

Begin reinforcing only 52 or greater problems completed correctly; advance to the average correct plus 2 when the criterion is reached twice.

Question 6

One of the most important reasons that clicker training is effective in shaping behavior is

Answer 6

The immediacy of reinforcement

Question 7

Shaping may be an appropriate intervention to

Answer 7

All the above:
Increase frequency of a difficult task.
Teach a new behavior.
Change a dimension of a current behavior

Question 8

The starting behavior in a shaping program

Answer 8

All the above:
Is the first topography you will reinforce.
Could be any behavior occurring at a relatively high frequency.
Has some relevance to the target behavior, but may not be similar.

Question 9

With shaping, the optimal schedule of reinforcement is

Answer 9

FR1

Question 10

Your daughter wants to use shaping to improve her dancing. The first step is to

Answer 10

Define her performance goal

Question 11

If the terminal behavior is a motor movement, but there is no acceptable starting behavior,

Answer 11

The starting behavior may be prompted using physical guidance.

Question 12

When shaping, move to the next successive approximation when the behavior is established at the current step,

Answer 12

But before it is so strong that advancing to the next topography is hindered.