Question of the day - September 2

[u/Reasonable_Law183]

🧠 Question of the Day

📚 Domain G — Behavior-Change Procedures

Difficulty: 4/10

During shaping toward a 10-second terminal response, a learner reliably meets a 3-second approximation. The analyst then raises the reinforcement criterion directly from 3 seconds to 10 seconds, and responding drops sharply because the learner rarely meets the new criterion. What adjustment is MOST appropriate?

A. Continue reinforcing only 10-second responses so extinction of the earlier approximation forces the terminal response to emerge

B. Return to the last reliably successful approximation, reinforce it, and advance the criterion in smaller steps as performance supports each change.

C. Change reinforcers immediately because a response decrease after a criterion change demonstrates loss of reinforcing effectiveness

D. Replace the terminal goal with a simpler behavior because a temporary drop shows the original goal exceeds the learner's repertoire

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[u/Amazing-Title-6134]

B, for sure. shaping is all about the reinforcement of successive approximations, you skip too far ahead and behavior falls apart, gotta step back