PSYCH 3rd Edition by Spencer Rathus

Exercise 4

Johnny watches TV violence for an hour or two a day, but he is not violent outside the home. Then one day Billy attacks him on the way home from school, and Johnny imitates the behavior he saw on TV to fight Billy off and teach Billy never to attack him again. Although Johnny had not shown violent behavior until he was attacked, we can assume that when watching TV, he was engaging in
A) latent learning.
B) shaping.
C) discrimination training.
D) operant conditioning.