BF Skinner spent time during World War II in a secret lab in Minneapolis training pigeons to guide missiles to targets on the ground. To do this, he discovered a new way to train animals--reinforcing successive approximations of the target behavior. This concept is known as ___________.

Respuesta :

Answer: The correct answer is Shaping.

Explanation:

Shaping occurs in operant conditioning when succesive aproximations of a certain behavior are reinforced.

In shaping a target behavior is stablished and then the succesive trials towards that target behavior are reinforced.

In conclusion, the correct answer is shaping.