Joanka Went Out for Dinner Last Night and Within 6

question 239

Multiple Choice

Joanka went out for dinner last night and within 6 hours of eating her meal she became violently ill.She attributed her sickness to the meal she ate at the restaurant,and most likely,she will avoid ordering that meal for the rest of her life.The fact that she attributed her illness to the meal in the restaurant,and NOT the lighting or background music,suggests that

• A) Joanka is fixated on food and as such is more likely to learn associations about food than other stimuli.
• B) we habituate more readily to some stimuli than others.
• C) we have a biological preparedness to make certain associations more readily than others.
• D) the meal was more salient of a stimulus than the lightning or the background music.

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