If a sea slug on repeated occasions reveives an electric shock just after being squirted with water, its protective withdrawl response to a squirt of water grows stronger. This best illustrates

A) spontaneous recovery
B) associative learning
C) observational learning
D) operant conditioning


Ans: B) associative learning

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