Your Hand Is Resting on a Wire Grid

question 64

Multiple Choice

Your hand is resting on a wire grid.A light flashes and the grid gives you a painful shock.You quickly learn to move your hand when the light goes on.Some theorists believe that you have learned to move your hand,not because of a learned set of reflexive muscle movements,but because you expect the grid to shock you and you intend to avoid the shock.These theorists would support which explanation of learning?

• A) connectionist
• B) cognitive
• C) Pavlovian
• D) law of effect

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Species

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