According to B.F. Skinner, "shaping" refers to
A) gradually increasing the reinforcements for a behavior.
B) reinforcing successive approximations to a behavior.
C) forcing an animal to do something.
D) the strategies the animal uses to resist the procedures by the experimenter.
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