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If you become afraid of cats because when you were little you saw a cat when you heard a fire engine go by and the noise of the fire engine scared you, your fear is caused by:____________

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Classical Conditioning.

Step-by-step explanation:

Discovered by Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist classical conditioning has a major effect on the behaviorist school of psychology, which believes that all learning occurs through environmental influence. However classical condition involves forming a close association between a neutral stimulus and a conditioned stimulus to obtain a desired conditioned response.

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