Troy has learned about being a cost estimator by hearing his father discuss his work at home. According to Krumboltz, this is an example of a (an)

Associative Learning

Explanation:

Associative learning is a process in which ideas reinforce each other. These ideas are mentally linked to each other. It means our mind cannot be worked in isolation if do not have ideas in our mind. Our ideas are associated with each other and we add information in our mind through our experiences. Associative learning is just as a classroom with teaching aids and many useful things in a classroom. Associative learning can be called as classical conditioning through which a person can modify and learned behavior on the bases of response that it generates. Behavior can be learned or unlearned through reinforcer. It is based on the relationship between two stimuli. By using negative and positive reinforcer a student can learn or unlearned a behavior their behavior.