Children can learn to fear the persons and places associated with their punishment.This best illustrates
A) extinction.
B) the law of effect.
C) shaping.
D) classical conditioning.

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This best illustrates classical conditioning, which involves learning through the association of stimuli. In this case, the punishment serves as the unconditioned stimulus that elicits fear as an unconditioned response. As a result, the child learns to associate the persons and places associated with the punishment with fear, even after the punishment itself has been removed.

Children Can Learn to Fear the Persons and Places Associated