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Which of the following accurately illustrates the reciprocal gene-environment model of interaction?

a. Due to her phobia of cats, May avoids them. b. Joan knows her father is an alcoholic, so she avoids alcohol. c. Tony has a predisposition to develop a blood-injury phobia, and he leads a cautious lifestyle. d. George has a vulnerability to depression, and he frequently rents sad movies on video.

The learning mechanism in traditional connectionist models occurs through receiving input, generating a response, observing the discrepancy between that response and the correct answer, and then making the appropriate adjustments within the

processing units. It is plausible that children learn like this in a variety of contexts. However, this learning mechanism seems less plausible in some contexts. Describe one context well suited for this type of learning mechanism and one context that may pose a problem for this type of learning mechanism. What will be an ideal response?