An Investigator Plans to Use Seligman's (1975) Procedures to Study

question 160

Multiple Choice

An investigator plans to use Seligman's (1975) procedures to study the effects of learned helplessness in rats. Which control group should be included to allow for an unambiguous interpretation of the results?

• A) a group of rats that are exposed to a pleasant event instead of an aversive event
• B) a group of rats that are put in the same aversive situation, but who are allowed some control over the aversive situation
• C) a group of rats that are exposed to the CS but given neither a pleasant nor an aversive stimulus
• D) a group of rats that are given some kind of virus that impairs behavioral response time

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