A person who takes up smoking after seeing his or her friends do the same has acquired smoking behavior through which one of these categories of learning?

A. Operant conditioning
B. Insight learning
C. Classical conditioning
D. Observational learning

Answer: D

Psychology

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If a researcher discovers that a variable that is not of interest in a study may be affecting the dependent variable, that researcher

a. can rule out causal ambiguity. b. should invoke the temporal precedence rule. c. has identified a possible extraneous variable. d. should use a double blind study to overcome the problem.

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