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You are giving tennis lessons to a beginning tennis player. Describe how you would teach the proper tennis swing through shaping.
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You are giving tennis lessons to a beginning tennis player. Describe how you would teach the proper tennis swing through shaping. Specify: a. An appropriate terminal behavior b. A reinforcer you might use c. The specific steps you would take during shaping d. When you would use continuous reinforcement e. When you would use intermittent reinforcement A. An appropriate terminal behavior would be to tell the student that he or she must make contact with the ball, hit it over the net and into the other side of the tennis court. A reinforcer I might use would be to praise the student if he or she succeeded, or to offer to buy the student lunch or ice cream if he or she succeeded a certain amount of times. During shaping, I would first reinforce any attempt the student made that came relatively close to the goal of hitting the ball. Secondly, I would reinforce a response that...
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