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Presenters on the morning news channel that you watch alert consumers to a food recall. A particular brand of ice cream has tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, an organism that causes asymptomatic or relatively mild disease in otherwise healthy individuals, but can be problematic in pregnant women. Your sister is expecting her first child, so you call her immediately and tell her about the recall. You fill her in on what you know about this organism and the disease it causes, having just learned about it yourself in your pre-nursing microbiology class. Your sister has questions that you are able to answer.
-If a person infected with L. monocytogenes develops meningitis, which of the following signs and symptoms would they experience?
Spontaneous Recovery
The reappearance of a conditioned response after a period of rest and with no further conditioning, often observed in behavioral psychology.
Extinction
The diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow a conditioned stimulus (CS); occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced.
Conditioned Stimulus
A stimulus that, through association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to elicit a response similar to the response to the unconditioned stimulus.
Conditioned Response
A learned reaction to a specific stimulus as a result of conditioning.
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