Which of the Following Is Considered to Be a Key

question 103

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is considered to be a key factor that contributes to obesity?

• A) too much physical work in our daily lives
• B) learning to eat all that is placed on your plate
• C) some persons are inefficient at storing ingested calories as fat
• D) the increasingly smaller portions provided by fast-food restaurants
• E) rapid genetic mutations.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly presented along with an unconditioned stimulus.

Tone

can refer to the quality or character of sound, or in linguistics, the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning.

Salivation

The secretion of saliva in the mouth, which is stimulated by the presence or anticipation of food and aids in digestion.

Classical Conditioning

The process of acquiring knowledge through the recurrent association of two stimuli, resulting in a response initially evoked by the second stimulus being evoked by the first stimulus alone.