You are visiting some friends who have a three-year-old who is being toilet trained.You hear the mother reinforcing the child after he says that he has to urinate,after he enters the bathroom,and after he uses the toilet.The mother has used the operant technique called:
A) discrimination
B) spontaneous recovery
C) shaping
D) extinction

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Shaping refers to reinforcing successive approximations of a desired behavior until the final behavior is achieved. In this scenario, the mother is reinforcing the child at three key steps of toilet training: recognizing the urge to urinate, entering the bathroom, and using the toilet itself. By reinforcing each step, the child is being shaped towards the desired final behavior of independently recognizing and using the toilet when needed.

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