If Your Mouth Waters Each Time You Eat a Cookie

question 149

Multiple Choice

If your mouth waters each time you eat a cookie, you may learn to salivate when you merely see a cookie or a picture of cookie. Your mouth watering to the sight of a cookie illustrates

• A)an automatic, non-learned response.
• B)learning by consequences.
• C)classical conditioning.
• D)operant conditioning.

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