Farmer Niles needs rain.He sees dark clouds,and then begins shouting at the clouds "to rain." It starts to rain.After another dry spell,Farmer Niles performs the same sequence of steps and it starts to rain again.Soon,he is convinced that shouting at clouds produces rain.According to Skinner,Farmer Niles has experienced:
A) insight learning.
B) vicarious reinforcement.
C) superstitious behavior.
D) modeling.

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Farmer Niles has developed a superstitious behavior of shouting at the clouds to produce rain. There is no evidence that he has gained any insight learning or has observed any modeling behavior. Vicarious reinforcement is also not applicable in this scenario.

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