How does a child raised in the city learn to fear snakes and respond emotionally to mere pictures of them?
A) The child was told repeatedly that "snakes are dangerous."
B) The child observed others reacting emotionally to the word snake or to snake images in the media.
C) The child, like all humans, are born with a fear of snakes and other reptiles.
D) The child has been bitten by other animals and generalizes this fear to all animals, including snakes.

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The child learned to fear snakes through social learning, observing others reacting fearfully to snakes or to snake images in the media. It is not necessarily an innate fear, and it cannot be explained by simply being told that "snakes are dangerous" or by generalizing fear from being bitten by other animals.

How Does a Child Raised in the City Learn to Fear