Which of the following principles is used in shaping behaviour in Skinner’s Operant Conditioning ?
Principle of successive approximation
Shaping reinforces successive approximations to a target response. As a closer approximation is established, reinforcement becomes contingent on the next step towards the target. The defining feature is this progressively changing reinforcement criterion, not punishment or merely dividing a task into a chain of already learned actions.
Important Questions from Principles and theories of learning - Teaching
Who of the following developed the concept of Behaviour shaping through the use of principle of successive approximation?
Strengths of "Behaviourism" as learning theory are:
(a) It provides clear predictions
(b) It has real life application
(c) It is too deterministic
(d) It has reductionist approach
(e) It emphasizes objective measurement
Choose the answer from the following options:
Which of the following subordinate laws in Thorndike's Theory of learning is equivalent to Watson or Pavlov's Classical Conditioning Theory?
In Hull’s ‘re-inforcement theory’ which of the following was postulated as intervening variable ?
Which philosopher is most closely associated with the view that the mind begins as a blank slate and gains ideas through experience?
