Your dog has learned to run to his food dish whenever he sees you go to the closet in the laundry room where you keep his dry food. Your dog learned this association through
A)instrumental learning.
B)classical conditioning.
C)observational learning.
D)operant conditioning.

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This is an example of classical conditioning, where the dog has learned to associate the sight of you going to the closet with the arrival of food. This is similar to Pavlov's experiments, where a neutral stimulus (going to the closet) becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus (food) to elicit a conditioned response (running to the food dish).

Your Dog Has Learned to Run to His Food Dish