You want to teach your horse to load into a trailer. You don’t expect the horse to walk into the trailer on her first try, so you begin by teaching her to walk forward while you tap on her back end, and you reinforce this. Over the next few days, you teach her to walk forward to the trailer, and you reinforce this.
You want to teach your horse to load into a trailer. You don’t expect the horse to walk into the trailer on her first try, so you begin by teaching her to walk forward while you tap on her back end, and you reinforce this. Over the next few days, you teach her to walk forward to the trailer, and you reinforce this. After she masters this in three days, you teach her to go into the trailer, and you reinforce this. This behavior procedure is called:
A. shaping. B. instinctive drift.
C. fixed-interval reinforcement. D. stimulus discrimination.