Cancer Patients Experiencing Nausea from Chemotherapy Often Develop Taste Aversions

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Multiple Choice

Cancer patients experiencing nausea from chemotherapy often develop taste aversions to the foods they had eaten earlier.Based on the research of Garcia and colleagues,researchers developed a technique for minimizing this negative effect;it involved giving a patient unusual foods,such as coconut or root-beer-flavoured candy,at the end of their last meal before undergoing treatment.Such a procedure attempts to establish the taste of the candy as a(n) :

• A)unconditioned positive stimulus.
• B)conditioned stimulus triggering a pleasant gustatory reaction to chemotherapy.
• C)conditioned response to chemotherapy.
• D)conditioned stimulus triggering nausea.

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