In Garcia and Koelling's Taste Aversion Study,why Were the Rats

question 48

Multiple Choice

In Garcia and Koelling's taste aversion study,why were the rats unable to associate a bright-noisy stimulus with feeling ill?

• A)The rats lacked the cognitive ability to do so.
• B)The rats enjoyed the bright-noisy stimulus enough to tolerate their illness.
• C)The rats relied more on taste and smell rather than vision and hearing for identifying food.
• D)The rats were so distracted or frightened by the bright-noisy stimulus they did not notice they were ill.

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