When Psychologists Have Tried to Produce Conditioned Fears in Young

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Multiple Choice

When psychologists have tried to produce conditioned fears in young children to such objects as curtains, wooden ducks, or wooden blocks, they were:

• A)unsuccessful.
• B)able to produce conditioned fears to wooden ducks but not to wooden blocks or curtains.
• C)successful in all three cases, showing that fears can be classically conditioned to virtually any stimuli.
• D)successful only when the object was paired with an extremely loud noise.

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