An Animal's Ability to Digest Foods Can Be Determined by All

question 20

Multiple Choice

An animal's ability to digest foods can be determined by all of the following except

• A) the types of enzymes present in the ingested food.
• B) how fast a particular food passes through its digestive system.
• C) the amount of nutritional value the animal derives from the food.
• D) the particular enzymes the animal synthesizes.
• E) the types of gut microbes the animal possesses.

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Definitions:

CS (Conditioned Stimulus)

An initially neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

UCS (Unconditioned Stimulus)

An unconditioned stimulus is something that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any learning needed (e.g., food causing salivation in dogs).

Classical Conditioning

A conditioning process where two stimuli are systematically paired; the response, at first provoked by the second stimulus, is gradually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Conditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.