People diagnosed with psychopathy show an impaired ability to learn to:
A) associate fear with faces when the faces are paired with a shock.
B) extinguish responding after the removal of the US.
C) associate tastes with illness.
D) blink to a tone which precedes a puff of air to the eye.
Answer: A
Rationale: In one study, people diagnosed with psychopathy showed little response to faces which had been paired with a shock during fear conditioning.
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