Which of the Following BEST Describes Sensory-Specific Satiety

question 39

Multiple Choice

Which of the following BEST describes sensory-specific satiety?

• A)When people experience sensory-specific satiety they tend to go on a food binge and eat vast amounts of high-calorie, easy-to-swallow foods.
• B)Simply chewing, tasting, or smelling an appealing food causes the hormone leptin to be released, greatly increasing the desire to eat.
• C)As a particular food is consumed, the desire to continue eating that food decreases.
• D)As sweet, salty, or fatty foods are consumed, there is a surge in brain levels of ghrelin.

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Definitions:

Potential Losses

Possible negative outcomes or detriments that could occur as a result of specific actions, decisions, or events.

Choices

The act of selecting between two or more possibilities, reflecting personal preference, values, or circumstances.

Availability Heuristic

The tendency to judge the probability of a type of event by how easy it is to think of examples or instances.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1.