Question

Barbara's oven is dirty, and it smokes whenever she bakes anything, Barbara's is worried that it will catch fire, so anything smells smoke while baking, she quickly checks the oven. barbara is most likely experiencing a form of nonassociative learning called __________.

A) Classical Conditioning.
B) Operant Conditioning.
C) Habituation.
D) Observational Learning.

Answer 1

The correct answer is option C) Habituation.

Step-by-step explanation:

Barbara is most likely experiencing a form of nonassociative learning called habituation. Nonassociative learning is a change in behavioral response that occurs over time to a single type of stimulus, without any reinforcement or association with other stimuli. In habituation, an organism reduces its responses to a repeated stimulus that is neither harmful nor rewarding. Barbara becoming accustomed to the smoke smell and no longer reacting as strongly is an example of this process. It differs from associative forms of learning such as classical conditioning, where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a response due to its being paired with an unconditioned stimulus, and operant conditioning, where behaviors are associated with their consequences.

In this scenario, Barbara is not learning to associate the smoke with a particular consequence or stimuli; rather, she's becoming less responsive to the stimulus (smoke) because it has been repeated and did not carry significant consequences.