Chaining and Shaping Behaviour – Mastering and Motivating the Child to Learn the Steps
…r bowl. You decide that it would be helpful to teach her to use a spoon to feed herself. A task analysis is completed and five steps in the spoon-feeding chain are identified. pick up the spoon put spoon into the food in the bowl Scoop food onto the spoon lift spoonful of food from the bowl put the food into the mouth. As Simithy begins to learn the steps, each one prompts the next one. When she has the spoon in her hand it helps her to know that…
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