When People Experience a Traumatic Event, They Can Sometimes Develop

question 500

Multiple Choice

When people experience a traumatic event, they can sometimes develop classically conditioned associations with otherwise unrelated stimuli that were present in the environment at the time of the trauma. Imagine this happens to Fredrick with a song playing on the radio during a car accident. What would be likely to happen if Fredrick continues to hear that same song many times after the car accident, without anything else bad happening at the same time (i.e. no more traumatic events coinciding with the song playing) ?

• A)generalization
• B)extinction
• C)habituation
• D)spontaneous recovery
• E)strengthening of the association

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