Many phobias can be traced back to a time when the person was frightened, injured, or upset by a particular stimulus, especially in childhood, and would, thus, be based on

a. inherited familial patterns.
b. emotional conditioning.
c. operant extinction.
d. instrumental acquisition.

ANSWER: b

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