In operant conditioning is a technique in which responses that are increasingly similar to the desired behavior are reinforced, step by step, until the final desired behavior occurs. example, teaching for your dog to catch frisbee's in the air by first exposing him to chasing a ball in the house, followed by a "reinforcer/treat" each time.

Associative learning, in operant conditioning is a technique in which responses that are increasingly similar to the desired behavior are reinforced, step by step, until the final desired behavior occurs. Associative learning is learning by making an association between two stimulus events (Pavlovian conditioning) or by learning an association between a response and its consequence (operant conditioning)

Ithink it would be choices a and b. hope this !