After reading a first-person account of a fictional fellow student's experience of overcoming obstacles to vote,university students were subsequently more likely to vote in a presidential primary election.This best illustrates the impact of
A) instinctive drift.
B) latent learning.
C) vicarious experience.
D) classical conditioning.

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The scenario described is an example of vicarious experience because the university students were influenced to vote after reading about someone else's experience of overcoming obstacles to vote. This shows that the students were positively impacted by someone else's experience, and they were more likely to engage in the same behavior. Instinctive drift and latent learning do not apply to this scenario, and classical conditioning is not relevant as there is no association between a stimulus and a response being established.

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