<span>ccording to the Declaration, ways in which the King denied the colonists "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is that he did not allow them to make their own laws, he did not allow the colonists to trade with other parts of the world and he kept standing armies amongst them in times of peace without their consent.</span>
It is through operant conditioning.
<span>The behaviour shown in operant
conditioning is controlled by the consequences. Every time Eric thinks about
skiing, he remembers his childhood experience of being buried in an avalanche
and is afraid of that incident repeating again. Thinking of that as the
consequence of skiing, Eric does not want to go skiing again and refuses the
invitations.</span>
I believe the answer is A