High School

A teacher used prompting to help a student pronounce written words correctly. When the student begins pronouncing the words correctly by seeing them, the teacher starts to remove the prompts. The gradual removal of prompts while the behavior is occurring in the presence of the discriminative stimulus is called ______.

Answer :

Answer:

Fading

Explanation:

Fading: This is a method that is used in behavior therapy, especially in skill developing area and behavior modification, where the initial encouragement or prompting to perform a specific action is slowly withdrawn until its requirement fades away.

Example: Verbal prompts are difficult to fade away because they are intrusive.

'Fading generally reduces the prompt'.

Types:

1. Small scale fading.

2. Large scale fading.