Praxis II Psychology

Answer: C - Mr. Wilkes, the school principal, shows his delinquent students who are in detention a slide show of bad behaviors with terrible music playing in the background. Based on this, he is studying classical conditioning.
Key Takeaway: Classical conditioning was pioneered by Ivan Pavlov and it was the foundation for many studies that trained an organism to respond to conditioned stimuli. Mr. Wilkes is training his students to respond negatively to bad behavior through this pairing exercise.