Garcia's Finding That Conditioned Laboratory Rats to Avoid Sweetened Water

question 24

Multiple Choice

Garcia's finding that conditioned laboratory rats to avoid sweetened water because it was paired with a shock that caused nausea several hours later shows _________.

• A)the US must follow the CS immediately
• B)classical conditioning can be overcome by strategies
• C)in cases when the conditioned response is necessary to survive, the US does not have to follow the CS immediately
• D)animals and humans are biologically prepared to avoid hunger

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Definitions:

Population Variance

A measure of the dispersion of individual values in a population around the mean of the population.

Sample Variance

The measure of dispersion or variability within a sample data set, quantifying the spread of its values.

Variability

The extent to which data points in a statistical distribution or set differ from each other and from the mean or average.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all numbers by the count of numbers.