Regarding the Experiments on Learning Helplessness, Animals That First Learn

question 80

Multiple Choice

Regarding the experiments on learning helplessness, animals that first learn to escape shock

• A)become more resistant to learned helplessness.
• B)will continue to be persistent in trying to flee inescapable shock, even when the situation is really "hopeless."
• C)appear to be "immunized" against helplessness.
• D)exhibit all of these characteristics.

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