Question

While chewing coffee-flavored gum, Jorge suffers a painful ankle sprain during his first dance lesson. As a result of this experience, he is likely to develop a

Answer 1

Jorge is likely to develop a fear of dancing as a result of fear conditioning.

Step-by-step explanation:

Fear conditioning similar to Pavlov’s classical conditioning. This behavioral paradigm happens when pairing takes place between an aversive stimulus like shock, fall etc with neutral context (like location) or neutral stimulus (like tone). So this will result in fear response just with the presence of stimulus or the context alone.

Fear becomes the conditional-response when the neutral stimulus or the context becomes the conditional stimulus with the aversive stimulus being the unconditional stimulus.

So the ankle sprain that Jorge had while dancing will give him a fear of dancing irrespective of his sprain. He will fear of spraining his ankle again if he dances again and will be reluctant to dance again.