In the First Phase of Training, a Rat Placed in an Operant

Multiple Choice

In the first phase of training, a rat placed in an operant chamber receives shocks regardless of what it does. In the second phase of training the rat is placed on a running wheel and can avoid receiving a shock by moving the wheel one complete revolution. To the extent that the rat has difficulty learning that response, we could argue that generalized _______ decreases the subject's ability to learn the response-outcome contingency.

A) learned irrelevance
B) instrumental blocking
C) conditioned inhibition
D) response interference