Question

Rats that received unpredictable electric shocks in a laboratory experiment subsequently became apprehensive when returned to that same laboratory setting. This best illustrates that anxiety disorders may result from:

Answer 1

Classical conditioning

Step-by-step explanation:

Classical or respondent conditioning is a procedure for learning in which a biologically potent stimulus is combined with a neutral stimulus and in this process, the neutral stimulus is known to exert a response that is similar to the one that is caused by the biologically potent stimulus.

Here, the unpredictable electric shocks classically condition the rats to be apprehensive of the shocks.