In the introduction to Chapter 6 in your textbook, Larry's story about how he developed a fear of rats was told. It seems that Larry learned to fear rats when he was a child as he observed his mother's extreme, irrational fear response upon seeing a rat. Larry developed his fear of rats through

a. classical conditioning.
b. vicarious classical conditioning.
c. operant conditioning.
d. insight learning.


B

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