When Rats Eat Only Enough Poison to Get Sick and Then

question 11

Multiple Choice

When rats eat only enough poison to get sick and then learn to avoid that poison,____ is said to have occurred.

• A) taste-aversion learning
• B) aversive conditioning
• C) poison-generalization effect
• D) imprinting

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