Your friend Margo became very ill a few hours after eating the college cafeteria's fried chicken special. Now she feels queasy whenever she smells fried chicken. Based on what you learned from the text, you explain to her that:A. latent learning has occurred and she can overcome the queasy feeling by forcing herself to eat fried chicken.

B. she has been negatively reinforced for eating fried chicken, because consuming it led to an aversive consequence.

C. she has experienced a learned taste aversion, which can occur after only one pairing of food and illness.

D. since she only experienced one pairing of the fried chicken and illness, her queasy feelings cannot be a classically conditioned response.

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Roderick Russo

7 June, 09:28

Your friend Margo became very ill a few hours after eating the college cafeteria's fried chicken special. Now she feels queasy whenever she smells fried chicken. Based on what you learned from the text, you explain to her that:A. latent learning has occurred and she can overcome the queasy feeling by forcing herself to eat fried chicken.

B. she has been negatively reinforced for eating fried chicken, because consuming it led to an aversive consequence.

C. she has experienced a learned taste aversion, which can occur after only one pairing of food and illness.

D. since she only experienced one pairing of the fried chicken and illness, her queasy feelings cannot be a classically conditioned response.

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Slade · Answer 1

C. she has experienced a learned taste aversion, which can occur after only one pairing of food and illness.

Explanation:

What Margo need to understand that she has experienced a learned taste aversion, which can occur after only one pairing of food and illness because subconsciously the body takes it that such food is not good for her health.

Andrew Shepard · Answer 2

Answer:C. she has experienced a learned taste aversion, which can occur after only one pairing of food and illness.

Explanation:Taste aversion is a term used to describe the learned response to the taste of a spoilt food, learned response causes persons who experience it to avoid and prevent eating foods related to the food that caused the taste aversion.

The ill feelings of Margo due to the smell of fried chicken is a result of Learned response to a particular taste which Margo has of fried chicken which must have been associated with Margo tasting or eating rotten or spoilt chicken previously.