In Robert Rescorla's experiment, what happened to the group of dogs to whom a shock was consistently presented after a tone?
A)The group of dogs became immune to the shock.
B)The group of dogs became calm in the presence of the tone.
C)The group of dogs learned to show a playful response in the presence of the tone.
D)The group of dogs learned to show a fear response at the sound of the tone.

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The group of dogs learned to show a fear response at the sound of the tone. This is known as classical conditioning, where the dogs learned to associate the tone with the shock, and thus exhibited a fear response upon hearing the tone even if the shock was not presented.

In Robert Rescorla's Experiment, What Happened to the Group of Dogs