Parent: I had tried without success to get my young child to brush her teeth. I had hoped that she would imitate me, or that she would be persuaded by reason to brush her teeth. Then, I made a point of brushing her teeth for her immediately before reading her a story before her naps and at night. After several weeks, when I would pick up a storybook at these times, she began automatically to retrieve her toothbrush and brush her teeth herself. The parent's experience with the child most closely conforms to which one of the following generalizations? ['Children more readily adopt a behavior through habit and repetition than through other means.', 'Children often imitate the behavior of others rather than listening to reason.', "Children ordinarily act contrary to their parents' expectations in order to get more attention.", 'Children are too young to understand rational arguments for adopting a behavior.']