Babies that learn that the sound of the microwave bell signals that their bottle is warmed and ready illustrate:
a. classical conditioning.
b. operant conditioning.
c. observational learning.
d. shaping.
A. Classical conditioning is the pairing of a neutral stimulus (bell) with an unconditioned stimulus (food/bottle) and the formation of a learned relationship between the two.
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a. easy b. difficult c. slow-to-warm-up d. undifferentiated
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