Carl so strongly associates watching baseball games with eating hot dogs that he habitually eats them while at the ballpark even when he's not hungry.His eating habit best illustrates the impact of
A) unconditioned responses.
B) spontaneous recovery.
C) introspection.
D) learning.

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Carl's habitual eating of hot dogs at the ballpark demonstrates the impact of learning. Specifically, Carl has learned to associate the experience of watching baseball games with the experience of eating hot dogs, and this association has become so strong that he continues to eat them even when he is not hungry. This is an example of classical conditioning, where a neutral stimulus (watching baseball games) becomes associated with a meaningful or rewarding stimulus (eating hot dogs), leading to a conditioned response (eating hot dogs even when not hungry).

Carl So Strongly Associates Watching Baseball Games with Eating Hot