You locate a vending machine and deposit your last bit of change to buy a candy bar. Then you press the button, and nothing happens. You press the other buttons, try the coin return, and look for an attendant. Still nothing happens. Impulsively, you give the machine a little kick, and out pops a candy bar plus 75 cents. Because your kick produced food and money, the odds of repeating the "kicking
response" increase. This situation illustrates
a. classical conditioning.
b. vicarious conditioning.
c. the law of association.
d. the law of effect.
D
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