Rats Are More Likely to Form a Smell-Sickness Association Than

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Multiple Choice

Rats are more likely to form a smell-sickness association than a light-sickness association, demonstrating that rats have:

• A)rats have poor eyesight because they evolved under low-light conditions.
• B)rats have evolved to not associate lights with smell.
• C)learned some associations more easily than others because of natural selection.
• D)rats have evolved to easily associate sickness with any stimulus in their environment.

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