When psychologists have tried to produce conditioned fears in young children to such objects as curtains, wooden ducks, or wooden blocks, they were:
A)unsuccessful.
B)able to produce conditioned fears to wooden ducks but not to wooden blocks or curtains.
C)successful in all three cases, showing that fears can be classically conditioned to virtually any stimuli.
D)successful only when the object was paired with an extremely loud noise.

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Psychologists have generally been unsuccessful in producing conditioned fears in young children to objects such as curtains, wooden ducks or wooden blocks. This is likely due to the fact that these objects are not innately threatening or aversive to the children, and therefore do not easily become associated with fear through classical conditioning.

When Psychologists Have Tried to Produce Conditioned Fears in Young