New golfers learn putting skills best if they are first reinforced for effective short putts followed by reinforcement for increasingly longer-distance putting effectiveness.This best illustrates the value of
A) delayed reinforcement.
B) shaping.
C) variable-interval reinforcement schedules.
D) spontaneous recovery

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The scenario describes shaping, which is a process of reinforcing successive approximations to a desired behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is effective putting, which is reinforced at increasingly longer distances.

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