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Rules Rule, or Do They?
Rules often are derived to guide behavior under certain, often well-specified conditions.
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Kudos for One of the Home Team
… She started the Youth Services Center as an alternative to incarceration for juvenile offenders, including job skills training and access to courses toward a high school diploma. After leaving Valley, she established her own company, … but she listens, and in a highly effective way patiently shapes and encourages people to find their own solutions, coaching skills as needed along the way, to address their organizational, and sometimes personal problems, solutions which she seemed … She started the Youth Services Center as an alternative to incarceration for juvenile offenders, including job skills training and access to courses toward a high school diploma. After leaving Valley, she established her own company, …
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Agency and Shaping
Shaping, or the differential reinforcement of successive approximations, is thought by many to be the most important tool in the behavior analyst’s toolbox. Shaping is usually thought of as something one human does to change the behavior of another living organism, most often to a human but also to a pet or a laboratory subject of the nonhuman persuasion. In such cases, the human is the agent of the shaping in that the human decides the conditions under which successive approximations do or do not merit reinforcement.
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