A ski instructor is teaching a class of beginning skiers how to do a snowplow turn. She first teaches her students to stand with the fronts of their skis together and the backs of their skis far apart. She then has her students bend their knees slightly and lean forward in this "snowplow" position. After the students can do these two things successfully, the instructor has them add more behaviors to the sequence: gliding across the side of a gentle slope in a snowplow, putting their body weight on the downhill ski, gradually turning downhill, and so on. The instructor praises her students each time they successfully add a new movement to the sequence. In behaviorist terminology, the procedure that the ski instructor is using can best be described as:

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The ski instructor is using chaining, which is a behaviorist teaching technique where behaviors are broken down into smaller, manageable parts that are taught sequentially. Each step of the chain is taught separately, and then the steps are gradually linked together until the entire behavior is completed successfully. The instructor in this scenario is teaching the snowplow turn by breaking it down into separate movements and having the students practice each movement separately before linking them together into a complete snowplow turn.

A Ski Instructor Is Teaching a Class of Beginning Skiers