Imagine That You Now Experience Such an Overly Strong Fear

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you now experience such an overly strong fear of dogs that you refuse to leave your house for fear of encountering a dog. A learning theorist would suggest that the roots of your fear can be attributed to past classical conditioning, in which you associated the sight and sound of a dog with some aversive experience. This type of explanation would involve the process of

A) rationalization.
B) pseudoscience.
C) reductionism.
D) generalization.
E) dualism.