Which Statement About Classical Conditioning and Food Cues Is True

question 39

Multiple Choice

Which statement about classical conditioning and food cues is true?

• A) Humans are resistant to learning taste aversions because they can reason about how they became ill and thus understand the accidental nature of the food-illness pairing.
• B) Animals are so prepared to acquire taste aversions that they develop food-illness associations regardless of how familiar or commonplace the food cue is.
• C) In the process of recovering from an illness or a state of nutritional deficiency, humans and animals can learn to associate foods and flavors eaten during this time with a feeling of well-being, and thus they develop a preference for that food.
• D) Feelings of over-satiation from high-calorie foods interfere with learning a preference for those foods.

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