Question

Sol was harassed by a couple of bullies while walking home from school one day. Although the two bullies were equally abusive, he developed a much stronger fear of the bully whom he had never seen before. This seems to be an example of _________

Answer 1

latent inhibition

Step-by-step explanation:

Latent inhibition: In psychology, the term latent inhibition is defined as one of the parts in the classical conditioning that describes the observation related to a familiar or similar stimulus would take a longer time to acquire or gain meaning as compared to a completely new stimulus. In this statement, the term "meaning" refers to a conditioned stimulus or a signal".

In the question above, the given statement is an example of latent inhibition.