What Is the Phenomenon in Which Exposure to an Uncontrollable

question 52

Multiple Choice

What is the phenomenon in which exposure to an uncontrollable punisher reduces the chance that an organism will try to make an avoidance response?

• A) conditioned emotional response
• B) learned helplessness
• C) conditioned avoidance
• D) perseveration

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Definitions:

Conditional Privilege

A special right, immunity, permission, or benefit given to certain individuals that allows them to make any statements about someone without being held liable for defamation for any false statement made without actual malice.

Defamation

A wrongful act of communicating false statements about a person that injure the person's reputation or good name.

Actual Malice

In defamation, either a person's knowledge that his or her statement or published material is false or the person's reckless disregard for whether it is false.

Nominal Damages

A small sum awarded to a plaintiff in a lawsuit when a legal wrong has occurred, but no actual monetary loss was sustained or proven.