In the introduction to Module 27,Larry's story about how he developed a fear of rats was told.It seems that Larry learned to fear rats when as a child he heard his mother tearfully describe how,as a little girl,she was terrified by a rat scampering out of a wood pile.Thus,Larry's fear of rats developed through a form of associative learning called
A)classical conditioning.
B)vicarious classical conditioning.
C)operant conditioning.
D)insight learning.

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Larry's fear of rats developed through vicarious classical conditioning, where he learned to associate fear with rats by observing his mother's emotional reaction.

In the Introduction to Module 27,Larry's Story About How He