When a Person Fails to Attempt an Escape from an Aversive

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Multiple Choice

When a person fails to attempt an escape from an aversive situation following previous experience with an inescapable aversive situation,this is called

• A) fixed conditioning.
• B) spontaneous recovery.
• C) learned helplessness.
• D) inhibitory punishment.

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Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician known for his work in logic, language, epistemology, and philosophy of science.

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Quine

A self-referential paradox concerning a sentence that quotes itself to make a statement about its own verifiability or a philosopher, Willard Van Orman Quine, known for his work in logic and philosophy of language.

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