You place an empty dog-food dish across the room from a puppy that then goes over to investigate the dish.You pick the dish up and ten minutes later you place it in a different part of the room,and you keep repeating this pattern.After the fifth time the puppy no longer goes over to the empty dish.Which of the following terms best describes this form of learning?

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The puppy learns that the empty dish does not have any food through repeated exposure to the dish, resulting in habituation. Trial and error learning involves experimenting with different behaviors until a successful outcome is reached. Classical conditioning involves connecting a neutral stimulus with a natural response through a learned association. Operant conditioning involves learning through consequences of actions. Imprinting is a form of learning in which young animals form an attachment to the first moving object they encounter.

You Place an Empty Dog-Food Dish Across the Room from a Puppy