One persuasion technique began by giving soldiers extra privileges for writing an essay slightly favorable to the captors. Later they shaped the soldiers into greater and greater cooperation. This is a practical application of what?
a. Classical conditioning
b. Operant conditioning
c. The representativeness heuristic
d. The availability heuristic
b
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