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In our effort to cover every topic in behavior analysis ever, we're heading back to a basic, but key, topic: shaping. Is this is your 10th review of loading the problem loader? Or have you been too scared to utilize shaping because you've never mastered the art of the approximation? This episode goes from the basic steps in teaching more complex physical behaviors all the way to the nuances of verbal responding. Y'know, just like shaping.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will describe why shaping was better than reinforcing verbal attempts at gaining terminal outcome in verbal behavior.

  2. Participants will describe the most vital components of shaping in clinical work.

  3. Participants will describe how to use targeting and shaping to teach a clinical skill.

This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU.

Articles discussed this episode:

Ferguson, D.L. & Rosales-Ruiz, J. (2001). Loading the problem loader: The effects of target training and shaping on trailer-loading behavior of horses. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 34, 409-424. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2001.34-409

Newman, B., Reinecke, D., & Ramos, M. (2009). Is a reasonable attempt reasonable? Shaping versus reinforcing verbal attempts of preschoolers with autism. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 25, 67-72. doi: 10.1007/BF03393070

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