Generally, How Long Does It Take a Rat to Learn

question 31

Multiple Choice

Generally, how long does it take a rat to learn to avoid a food that made it ill?

• A) one trial
• B) after a few CS-US pairings
• C) until the poison and the food are presented simultaneously
• D) impossible to predict; all rats are different in their learned response to poison avoidance

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