Jeremy, age four, saw homemade brownies cooling on the counter. First, he tried to climb up on his tricycle and fell off. Next, he dragged a kitchen chair over to the counter and successfully reached the brownies. A week later, again he saw brownies cooling on the counter. This time he went straight for the chair and climbed up. Based on Thorndike’s research, this is an example of ____
a. the law of exercise
c. operant conditioning
b. classical conditioning
d. the law of effect
D
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