An Important Discovery Stemming from Watson and Rayner's Experiment Was

question 136

Multiple Choice

An important discovery stemming from Watson and Rayner's experiment was that

• A) phobias can be reversed.
• B) some phobias are more probable due to preparedness.
• C) children experience phobias more often than had previously been thought.
• D) phobias may be explained by using principles of classical conditioning.
• E) instinctive drift explains phobias in human beings.

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