Mrs Martin, a Third-Grade Teacher, Is Teaching Cursive Writing

Multiple Choice

Mrs. Martin, a third-grade teacher, is teaching cursive writing. At first, she reinforces even crude attempts to reproduce letters with an encouraging word; as time goes on, though, she reinforces only well-formed letters. By reinforcing progressively better attempts at writing letters, Mrs. Martin is using:

A) shaping.
B) classical conditioning.
C) partial reinforcement.
D) modeling.