If you wanted to teach a chicken to "play" the piano, you should
A)wait for a musically inclined chicken to show up
B)extinguish piano-playing behavior
C)use shaping
D)use negative reinforcement

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Shaping is a technique in operant conditioning where behaviors are gradually guided toward a desired behavior by reinforcing successive approximations of the target behavior. To teach a chicken to "play" the piano, you would start by reinforcing any behavior that is a step towards playing the piano, such as pecking at keys, and gradually require more specific actions that resemble playing the piano more closely.

If You Wanted to Teach a Chicken to "Play" the Piano