The conditioned emotional response (CER) procedure introduced by Estes and Skinner is also known as __________, since following tone-shock pairings, the presentation of the tone by itself evokes emotional responses that interfere with food- reinforced lever pressing.
a. extinction
b. conditioned punishment
c. conditioned suppression
d. emotional interference
e. reductive conditioning
c. conditioned suppression
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