The Chapter-Opening Story Describes How Dr

question 83

Multiple Choice

The chapter-opening story describes how Dr.Pierce taught rats to associate sweet-tasting foods with no calories.He then exposed these rats to a sweet-tasting,calorie-rich pre-meal and found that over the next three hours these rats ate significantly more than control rats.Which of the following explains these results best?

• A)extinction
• B)spontaneous recovery
• C)stimulus discrimination
• D)stimulus generalization

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