A child learns to be afraid of spiders by observing his parents' highly emotional and negative response to them. This demonstrates
A)spontaneous recovery.
B)higher-order conditioning.
C)vicarious classical conditioning.
D)stimulus generalization.

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This is an example of vicarious classical conditioning, where the child learns to respond emotionally to a stimulus (spiders) by observing someone else's (the parents') emotional response to it, without having a direct negative experience with the stimulus themselves.

A Child Learns to Be Afraid of Spiders by Observing