The aerobics instructor's procedure exemplifies forward chaining.

• A. Forward chaining
• B. Backward chaining
• C. Total-task chaining
• D. Task analysis

Answer: (A)

Forward chaining builds a task step by step from the beginning. In the aerobics instructor’s approach, the first movement is taught and mastered, then the next movement is added only after the first is solid, and so on. This creates a chain where each new step is tied to the previous ones, building the full routine from the start to the end. That flow—start with the initial step, reinforce it, then progressively add later steps—defines forward chaining. By comparison, backward chaining would start with the final movement and work backward, total-task chaining would have the learner perform all steps in one go with little prompting, and task analysis is simply the breakdown of the task into steps rather than the specific sequencing used in training.