B. F. Skinner was known for using the principles of operant conditioning to train animals to perform complex behaviors. Explain how he may have trained pigeons to play a game of ping pong using the following terms in your response: - shaping and successive approximations
- positive reinforcement
- negative reinforcement
- fixed-ratio and variable-ratio schedules
- positive punishment and negative punishment
- extinction

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Additionally, explain why operant conditioning was used to train the pigeons to play ping pong rather than classical conditioning.