Seligman’s (1971) preparedness theory suggests that:
A. People are born with a predisposition to learn to fear certain stimuli
B. People are born with certain phobias
C. People develop certain phobias because of a negative experience of a stimulus
D. People only develop fears about fear-relevant stimuli
A. People are born with a predisposition to learn to fear certain stimuli
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a. her affair with Lucien, a famous sculptor b. her affair with Terrence, a hotshot accountant c. her affair with Greg, a freshman in college who is studying accounting d. her affair with Earl, an exciting but unemployed ex-poet
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