''Okay, that was good! Now this time, don't close your eyes. Keep your eye on the ball, so you know when to close your hands,'' Mark said in the process of teaching his 5-year-old to play catch. In operant conditioning terms, Mark is using _____ to teach his daughter how to catch a ball.

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Mark is using shaping to teach his daughter how to catch a ball. Shaping involves reinforcing successive approximations of a desired behavior, in this case catching the ball. By instructing his daughter to keep her eye on the ball, Mark is shaping her behavior towards the desired outcome of catching the ball. The other options are not applicable in this scenario - the partial reinforcement effect refers to reinforcing a behavior only some of the time, generalization training involves applying a behavior in different contexts, and negative reinforcement involves removing an aversive stimulus to increase a behavior.

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