Experience with unavoidable negative stimuli can lead to a particular deficit in avoidance learning called _____,in which the organism,exposed to uncontrollable aversive stimuli,learns that it has no control over negative outcomes.

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Learned helplessness occurs when an organism learns that it has no control over negative outcomes after being exposed to uncontrollable aversive stimuli. Instinctive drift refers to the tendency for an animal's innate behaviors to interfere with learned behaviors. Extinction is the process of weakening a conditioned response by repeatedly presenting the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus. Generalization is the tendency for a conditioned response to occur in response to stimuli that are similar to the original conditioned stimulus.

Experience with Unavoidable Negative Stimuli Can Lead to a Particular