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We have all seen animals performing tricks.

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These animals are trained using operant conditioning as described by B. F. Skinner.

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But it is a long way from a rat pressing a bar, as Skinner and many others have done in the lab,

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to animals performing elaborate tricks outside of the lab.

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The difference is in the number of steps to condition the behavior

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and it relies on the process called shaping which we will explore in this activity.