According to the article Yoking Smoking about operant conditioning, shaping is the process used to

(a) fix poor quality research designs
(b) teach a rat to make its first bar-press response
(c) the way research data are put together for presentation
(d) what happens after a rat has received successive rewards in a Skinner box

B

Psychology

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A) mom B) sister C) grandma D) cousin

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Beginning at the age of Piaget's ____ stage, children judge wrongdoing by considering whether the action was "just an accident" vs. "done on purpose."

a. Oedipal morality b. negative reinforcement c. heteronomous morality d. autonomous morality

Psychology