Many people start tensing up during a horror movie whenever they hear a familiar tune because this tune is always associated with a character being in danger. This situation illustrates

a. how shaping occurs.
b. the development of a conditioned emotional response.
c. the use of negative reinforcers.
d. how desensitization occurs.

ANSWER: b

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(a) craved social contact as adults (b) were especially nurturant mothers (c) if they became impregnated, were detached or brutal mothers (d) bore an abnormally large number of infant monkeys (e) no such study has been done

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