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Shaping in Operant Conditioning

Shaping is a technique in operant conditioning used to teach complex or chained behaviors that an organism is unlikely to perform spontaneously. It involves reinforcing successive approximations of a target behavior and is a common method used by animal trainers to teach animals new skills.

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