A balloon popped and made Brandon cry. It happened again when he was at a friend's birthday party. Now when Brandon sees a balloon, he starts to cry. According to the behaviorist perspective, Brandon cries in response to the balloon because of:

Answer: Classical conditioning

Explanation:

Classical conditioning is defined as the learning mechanism in which pairing of two stimulus is done. A strong stimulus is combined with previously objective stimulus to make a relationship between them.

According to the question, crying of Brandon while seeing popping or bursting of balloon is the learned mechanism through classical conditioning.