When Watson and Rayner (1920) conditioned an infant to fear a white rat by making a loud noise whenever the rat appeared, it was an example of __________.

A. Sigmund Freud's theory
B. classical conditioning
C. social learning theory
D. operant conditioning


Answer: B

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