Rose is in an abusive relationship with Dan,who is physically violent with her and has injured her seriously more than once.Despite this,Rose has never been able to stop him or leave him.Rose was also abused by her step-father as a child.Rose's inability to put up a fight with Dan is most likely the result of _____ in operant conditioning.
A)learned helplessness
B)preparedness
C)instinctive drift
D)aversive conditioning

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Learned helplessness is a phenomenon in which individuals learn to be passive and unable to respond to an aversive stimulus, such as abuse, due to their repeated exposure to the same aversive stimulus without a means of escape or avoidance. In this case, Rose's repeated exposure to abuse from Dan without being able to escape or avoid it is likely to have led to her learning helplessness. Preparedness and instinctive drift refer to the innate predisposition of animals to learn some associations more quickly than others, and aversive conditioning is a type of classical conditioning that involves associating a negative stimulus with a behavior to discourage its occurrence. None of these are as likely to explain Rose's behavior as learned helplessness.

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