Escape Learning Research Paper

The facts of escape and avoidance are used more often than we think about. Escape learning is our flight or fight response telling us to flee from of a situation that is effecting us negatively. The experiment used in the book talks about rats and dogs getting an electric shock then fleeing into another chamber. But to make this more relatable for us students its like hanging out with friends who do scare pranks, you're sitting there minding your own busness then they scare the (please pardon the language) crap out of you so you jump away. Avoidance learning is when you learn to remove yourself from the possibility of pain. In the experiment with the rats and dogs the testers had awarning light that the animals learned to leave befor the shock