Estella is afraid of cats. To help her overcome her fear, her mother calmly pets and strokes a cat while Estella is watching. Her mother encourages her to imitate her behavior. Estella's mother is using

a. reinforcement.
b. a token economy.
c. participant modeling.
d. extinction.
e. generalization.


c. participant modeling.

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