In modeling, it is possible for individuals to acquire responses:
a. in the absence of other people.
b. that have never been performed or displayed before.
c. by the means of operant conditioning.
d. in the same way a rat learns to press the lever in the Skinner box.
ANS: B
FEEDBACK: Through modeling, by observing the behavior of a model and repeating the behavior ourselves, it is possible to acquire responses that we have never performed or displayed before and to strengthen or weaken existing responses.
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