Question

A 5-year-old observes his father yelling at his older brother, who dropped and broke his dinner plate while removing it from the table. thereafter, due to ______________, the 5-year-old is very cautious when removing his own plate.

Answer 1

The correct answer is vicarious conditioning. The kid basically doesn't want to get yelled at so he became conditioned vicariously through his brother to be careful. The brother is directly conditioned but the kid is vicariously conditioned. This is quite common in raising children because they observe others a lot and reproduce their behavior.