Dharma has agreed to take a survey to help her roommate with a sociology project.Her roommate promises that the survey is short and won't take much of Dharma's time.Looking through the survey,Dharma sees that if she answers "yes" to one particular question,she can move on to the next question.If she answers "no," she will be asked to write an explanation.Though Dharma disagrees with many of the statements on the survey,she resents the amount of time explaining her "no" answers will take,so she answers "yes" to every question.Dharma is displaying
A) escape conditioning.
B) the Skinner effect.
C) systematic desensitization.
D) habituation.

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Dharma is avoiding the aversive consequence of having to write an explanation for every "no" answer by answering "yes" to every question, which is an example of escape conditioning. She is motivated to escape the negative consequence of writing explanations, even though it means sacrificing the accuracy of her responses.

Dharma Has Agreed to Take a Survey to Help Her