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Which theory suggests that punishment causes response suppression because a subject learns to engage in behaviors incompatible with the target response?

A) SSDR theory
B) the conditioned emotional response theory of punishment
C) the avoidance theory of punishment
D) the negative law of effect

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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How can the concept of a safety signal be used to explain free-operant avoidance learning?

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Which theory suggests that the nature of the avoidance response is shaped by punishment?

A guinea pig can prevent mild footshock by turning a running wheel during a brief tone CS.Early in training, the guinea pig receives several shocks because it fails to spin the wheel in time.However, over several trials the guinea pig successfully learns to prevent the shock.These later successful trials are most correctly referred to as

Your friend has decided to use punishment as a means of training her new puppy.What are three things she must do to ensure that the aversive stimuli she administers will quickly alter the pup's behavior?

Timmy is afraid of snakes and runs away whenever he sees one.To cure him of his fear, his older brother places Timmy in a box along with three harmless garter snakes.This treatment is an example of

Compare the safety-signal hypothesis to the two-process theory of avoidance.