1.continued gambling behavior is best explained in terms of which process of learning?
a. social learning
b. classical conditioning
c. partial reinforcement
d. observational learning

c. Partial reinforcement 

Operant conditioning is one of the works of B. Skinner, a behaviorist. A popular psychologist who was the proponent of reinforcement and punishment scheme. Moreover, gambling behavior is a partial reinforcement because when the behavior is reinforced there is a higher chance of doing that behavior again even though the odds are high in getting the reward obtained behavior. The gambler's effect can further explain the phenomenon.