An Important Example of Conditioned Taste Aversions Might Be ________

question 127

Multiple Choice

An important example of conditioned taste aversions might be ________.

• A) chemotherapy patients losing their appetites for food served around the same time they had their treatments.
• B) a child tastes soup but burns his tongue, so he decides that he does not want to eat the soup until it cools down.
• C) an adult does not like to eat beets because his mother used to talk about how disgusting they are
• D) Marie will not eat chicken, beef, or fish because she is a vegetarian

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Definitions:

Spinal Cord

A long, thin, tubular structure made up of nervous tissue, which extends from the brainstem down the back, and transmits nerve signals between the brain and the rest of the body.

Anterior Ramus

is a branch of a spinal nerve that passes anteriorly (towards the front) to supply muscles and skin on the front of the body.

Communicating Rami

Nerves that connect the spinal nerves to the sympathetic trunk, facilitating communication between the central and autonomic nervous systems.

Sympathetic Trunk Ganglion

A nerve cell cluster in the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system, transmitting impulses to various body organs.