New golfers learn putting skills best if they are first reinforced for effective short putts followed by reinforcement for increasingly longer-distance putting effectiveness. This is an example of:.

shaping

Explanation:

Shaping means  to learn behavior and skills through successive approximation. In simple shaping is way of learning in which closer approximation is reinforced to reach and learn the target behavior. Its process of gradual learning in which successive approximation is reinforced to change and learn the new behavior.

answer; i believe the correct answer is prefrontal cortex;