Shortly After Martin and His Wife Ate Filet Mignon with Béarnaise

question 361

Multiple Choice

Shortly after Martin and his wife ate filet mignon with Béarnaise sauce, Martin fell ill with the flu. Classical conditioning occurred and Béarnaise sauce became a conditioned stimuli for nausea. The waiter, however, did not become a conditioned stimulus. According to the Garcia effect:

• A) humans are primed to associate sickness with taste more readily than with sights.
• B) once Martin observes another diner enjoying Béarnaise sauce then he will enjoy it too.
• C) extinction occurs rapidly for food dislikes and soon Martin will enjoy Béarnaise sauce again.
• D) the kindness of the waiter was sufficient to override classical conditioning.

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