Shaping involves
A) presenting a subject with a conditional stimulus prior to presenting other kinds of stimuli.
B) repeatedly presenting a fear-inducing cue until the subject stops emitting responses.
C) reinforcing a succession of responses that increasingly resemble the response that you wish the subject to learn.
D) generalization of a response to different discriminative stimuli.
E) reinforcing each and every response that resembles the target behaviour.

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Shaping involves reinforcing progressively closer approximations of the desired behavior until the desired behavior is achieved. This technique is used to teach new behaviors by rewarding actions that are similar to the target behavior and then gradually requiring actions to be more and more similar to the target behavior before they are rewarded.

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