A student sometimes got A's on his midterm exams last year when he used his green pen to write the exams. Now he always takes his lucky green pens to exams. How did the student's superstitious behavior arise?
A)observational learning
B)classical conditioning
C)operant conditioning
D)none of the above

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The student's behavior is an example of operant conditioning, where he associates using the green pen with the positive outcome of getting A's, reinforcing the behavior of using the pen.

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