Zane has been shocked on six separate occasions while making toast.However,he doesn't seem to have developed a phobia toward toasters.Zane's only phobia is toward spiders,because he once had a big spider fall in his shirt when he was child.Zane's pattern of phobias illustrates the concept of
A) signal relations.
B) negative avoidance.
C) superstitious responding.
D) preparedness.

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Zane's phobia towards spiders is an example of preparedness, which refers to the innate tendency to develop fears towards certain stimuli that were potentially dangerous to humans throughout our evolutionary history (such as spiders or snakes). Zane's lack of phobia towards toasters suggests that he has not developed an innate preparedness for fearing toasters because toasters were not a threat to human survival in the same way that spiders were.

Zane Has Been Shocked on Six Separate Occasions While Making