Car manufacturers try to encourage drivers to buckle their seat belts through the use of reinforcement. As you know, if you start your car without buckling-up you will hear a somewhat annoying sound. If you learn to buckle-up after hearing the sound, you show ____. If you acquire the response of buckling-up before you turn on the ignition, you show ____.

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- Escape learning: learning to escape or terminate an aversive stimulus (in this case, the annoying sound) by performing a specific behavior (buckling up after hearing the sound).
- Avoidance learning: learning to avoid an aversive stimulus altogether by performing a specific behavior (in this case, buckling up before turning on the ignition).
Therefore, if someone learns to buckle-up after hearing the sound, they are showing escape learning. If they buckle-up before turning on the ignition, they are showing avoidance learning. The answer is B because it correctly matches these two types of learning with the corresponding scenarios.

Car Manufacturers Try to Encourage Drivers to Buckle Their Seat