Edwin Guthrie Argued That Learning Occurs as a Gradual Process

Edwin Guthrie argued that learning occurs as a gradual process because

A) learning that a particular response leads to a particular outcome is more difficult than learning a stimulus-stimulus association.
B) only a small set of stimulus elements gets connected to the response on each trial.
C) learning to perform a response correctly takes practice, since the subject inevitably gets confused or has difficulty producing a series of behaviors in the correct sequence.
D) competing evolutionary tendencies must be overcome before a subject can learn to produce the arbitrary instrumental response the researcher has designated.

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