Rose Is in an Abusive Relationship with Dan,who Is Physically

question 77

Multiple Choice

Rose is in an abusive relationship with Dan,who is physically violent with her and has injured her seriously more than once.Despite this,Rose has never been able to stop him or leave him.Rose was also abused by her step-father as a child.Rose's inability to put up a fight with Dan is most likely the result of _____ in operant conditioning.

• A)learned helplessness
• B)preparedness
• C)instinctive drift
• D)aversive conditioning

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A training process resulting from the connection between a stimulus present in the environment and one that occurs naturally.

Partial Reinforcement

A conditioning strategy where only a portion of responses are reinforced, making the learned behavior more resistant to extinction.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning by which a stimulus that already elicits a conditioned response is used as a conditioned stimulus to condition a response to a new stimulus.

Latent Learning

Learning that occurs without any obvious reinforcement or immediate demonstration of the learned behavior or knowledge, becoming apparent only when a situation calls for it.