Rats That Received Unpredictable Electric Shocks in a Laboratory Experiment

question 136

Multiple Choice

Rats that received unpredictable electric shocks in a laboratory experiment subsequently became apprehensive when returned to that same laboratory setting.This best illustrates that anxiety may result from

• A) repression.
• B) cognition.
• C) reinforcement.
• D) conditioning.

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