John B. Watson proposed that people learn phobias by associating a harmless thing with something frightening or dangerous (as in the case of Little Albert) . One weakness in this theory is that
A) most phobias develop so early in life that psychologists believe they must be inherited.
B) avoidance learning is generally very slow to develop
C) avoidance learning occurs easily in nonhuman, but seldom occurs in humans.
D) many people develop phobias of objects with which they have never had a bad personal experience.
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