While His Exhausted Mother Was Taking a Nap, Four-Year-Old Dennis

Multiple Choice

While his exhausted mother was taking a nap, four-year-old Dennis decided to help her out by doing the laundry. He dragged a stool over to the washing machine, stuffed clothes into it, turned it on, and dumped a box of detergent on top of the clothes. Which psychologist and which learning theory could BEST explain Dennis's behavior?

A) Ivan Pavlov; classical conditioning
B) Edward Thorndike; the law of effect
C) Albert Bandura; observational learning
D) John Garcia; biological preparedness