Three-Year-Old Jabez Has Been Classically Conditioned to Salivate to a Bell

question 152

Multiple Choice

Three-year-old Jabez has been classically conditioned to salivate to a bell. We now clap our hands and then ring the bell. Little Jabez will soon learn to salivate when we clap our hands because of

• A)the law of effect.
• B)shaping.
• C)higher-order conditioning.
• D)instrumental conditioning.

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