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Researchers Conduct an Experiment Using Dogs

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Researchers conduct an experiment using dogs.  Each dog is placed in a cage with a short middle partition.  A light turns on five seconds before the dog receives a painful electric shock through the floor, which stops when the dog jumps over the partition.  If researchers count the number of trials each dog needs until it jumps over the partition before the shock is administered, they are most likely studying:


A) escape learning.
B) avoidance learning.
C) habituation.
D) sensitization.

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