Importance of Shaping in Acquiring New Behaviors

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Shaping is a practical teaching approach for adopting new behaviors because it helps learners build links between activities and their consequences (Narvekar et al., 2020). Learning to swim is the behavior that will be addressed utilizing shaping in this lecture. Successive approximations, the intended terminal behavior, other analytic teaching approaches, and ethical rules are also covered.
The approximations might be reinforced in steps, comprising entering the pool, blowing bubbles in the water, floating on the water's surface, kicking in the water, swimming a few strokes, and swimming a few laps. The student will ultimately be able to swim a whole lap if each step is reinforced.
Following that, the student should be able to swim one length of a 25-meter pool with appropriate technique and control. The number of strokes each lap and the body position and method utilized may be used to quantify this behavior objectively.
Modeling, chaining, controlling the environment, and prompting are other analytic teaching strategies that might address this tendency (Cooper et al., 2020). Modeling entails acting out the desired behavior and offering verbal signals. Chaining breaks down a behavior into smaller pieces and teaches each step separately. Ideally, manipulating the environment entails modifying the physical surroundings to simplify learning behavior. Finally, prompting i...