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Alice goes to see a rerun of jaws (a movie about a vicious shark) a few days before she travels to florida for spring break. while in florida, alice finds that she is too nervous to spend much time in the ocean, since she is convinced that she is in danger of being bitten by a shark. her heightened sensitivity to sharks is due to

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The answer is priming

Priming a fear is a process that makes a person associate a condition with fear. In this case, the movie about shark attack is the cause. Alice fears the shark attack and the movie associate ocean with the shark attack. The result of the priming is Alice feeling fear in the ocean.
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