Psychologists have taught children to like healthful vegetables by pairing new vegetable flavors with the flavor of sugar to produce liking. Specifically, they are using ____.
A) stimulus discrimination
B) habituation
C) extinction
D) classical conditioning

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The technique described in the scenario is classical conditioning, which involves pairing a neutral stimulus (in this case, a new vegetable flavor) with a well-established stimulus that produces a desired response (in this case, the flavor of sugar). Over time, the neutral stimulus takes on its own positive associations and elicits a liking response, even in the absence of the well-established stimulus.

Psychologists Have Taught Children to Like Healthful Vegetables by Pairing