We Can Learn to Associate the Smell and Sight of Food

question 459

Multiple Choice

We can learn to associate the smell and sight of food with its taste and, thus, these stimuli can serve to trigger a hunger response, through the process of __________________________.

• A)operant conditioning
• B)modelling
• C)avoidance conditioning
• D)classical conditioning

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Definitions:

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