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:

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Answer:

fading        

Explanation:

Fading: In psychology, the term fading is referred to as a procedure being applied or used in behavioral therapy, generally in behavior modification, along with skill training settings, in which the former encouragement to perform a specific action is moderately withdrawn till the requirement for it fades away.

The main purpose of fading is to encourage an individual to eventually stops the need for prompts.

In the question above, the statement signifies the use of fading.