Many of the emotional attitudes that people develop toward foods, political parties, and ethnic groups were developed in childhood by observing how their parents responded to these same foods or groups. Thus, these reactions were probably conditioned
a. through negative transference.
b. by insight learning.
c. by response chaining.
d. vicariously.
D
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