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Who of the following developed the concept of Behaviour shaping through the use of principle of successive approximation?

The correct answer is

Skinner

B. F. Skinner developed shaping through successive approximations within operant conditioning. Reinforcement first follows behaviour resembling the target, then progressively closer approximations, until the desired behaviour is established.

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Important Questions from Principles and theories of learning - Teaching

  1. 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:

  2. Which of the following subordinate laws in Thorndike's Theory of learning is equivalent to Watson or Pavlov's Classical Conditioning Theory?

  3. In Hull’s ‘re-inforcement theory’ which of the following was postulated as intervening variable ?

  4. Which philosopher is most closely associated with the view that the mind begins as a blank slate and gains ideas through experience?

  5. Match the operant learning procedures in List I with their paradigms in List II.

    List I
    (a) Discriminated omission
    (b) Discriminated punishment
    (c) Positively reinforced discriminated operant
    (d) Active avoidance

    List II
    (i) Cue present → Response made → Reward delivered
    (ii) Warning cue present → Response made → Aversive event prevented
    (iii) Cue present → Target response withheld → Reward delivered
    (iv) Cue present → Response made → Aversive consequence delivered

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