The original learned helplessness experiments placed dogs in a harness where they were exposed to electric shocks. Later, the dogs were placed in a shuttle-box where they experienced more shocks. The dogs that exhibited learned helplessness
A. quickly learned to escape the shocks in a shuttle box.
B. failed to escape the shocks in the shuttle box.
C. escaped the shocks in the shuttle box, but only after several trials.
D. escaped the shuttle-box shocks, but then showed signs of helplessness.
B
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