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

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area and behavior modification, where the initial encouragement or prompting to perform a specific action is slowly withdrawn until its requirement fades away.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.