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Researchers found that people easily acquire a conditioned fear response of pictures of snakes and spiders when the slides were paired with a mild electric shock. however, people did not easily acquire a conditioned fear response of pictures of flowers and mushrooms when these images were paired with a mild electric shock. which perspective provides the best explanation of this finding?

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Researchers found that people easily acquire a conditioned fear response of pictures of snakes and spiders when the slides were paired with a mild electric shock. However, people did not easily acquire a conditioned fear response of pictures of flowers and mushrooms when these images were paired with a mild electric shock. The evolutionary perspective provides the best explanation of this finding.

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The evolutionary perspective provides the best explanation of the finding people easily acquire a conditioned fear response of pictures of snakes and spiders when the slides were paired with a mild electric shock, but they do not when they see images of flowers and mushrooms paired with a mild electric shock. The evolutionary perspective explains useful mental and psychological traits as the functional products of natural selection.

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