The study of monkeys who developed a fear of a toy snake and toy crocodile, but not a toy rabbit or flower, after watching a videotape of another monkey modeling a fear response to all four objects, suggests that phobias are _____.

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The study suggests that phobias are both learned (through modeling) and biologically based (since the monkeys only developed a fear of certain objects, not all of them). The study does not provide evidence for phobias being universal across species or unpredictable.

The Study of Monkeys Who Developed a Fear of a Toy