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Taste-aversion research showed that when rats get sick after sampling a new food, they learn to avoid certain tastes but not the sights or sounds connected to the place they became sick. This finding supports the idea that a. animals learn to react to similar stimuli in similar ways. b. conditioning has survival value by helping animals adapt to their environment. c. psychologists should only study observable behavior. d. organisms can be conditioned to any stimulus.

Name: Problem 5, Chapter 6: Psychology in Everyday Life
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   Taste-aversion research showed that when rats get sick after sampling a new food, they learn to avoid certain tastes but not the sights or sounds connected to the place they became sick. This finding supports the idea that
a. animals learn to react to similar stimuli in similar ways.
b. conditioning has survival value by helping animals adapt to their environment.
c. psychologists should only study observable behavior.
d. organisms can be conditioned to any stimulus.

Psychology in Everyday Life

David G. Myers 1st Edition

Chapter 6, Problem 5

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06/28/2021

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The rats were given food that made them sick. After this, the rats developed an aversion to the taste of the food that made them sick. This is a form of conditioning where the rats learn to associate the taste of the food with the sickness they experienced. Show more…

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Taste-aversion research showed that when rats get sick after sampling a new food, they learn to avoid certain tastes but not the sights or sounds connected to the place they became sick. This finding supports the idea that a. animals learn to react to similar stimuli in similar ways. b. conditioning has survival value by helping animals adapt to their environment. c. psychologists should only study observable behavior. d. organisms can be conditioned to any stimulus.

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Classical Conditioning

Classical conditioning is a learning process in which an organism comes to associate two stimuli, leading to a learned response. This concept explains how associations are formed between a neutral stimulus and one that naturally elicits a response, enabling the organism to predict environmental events and respond appropriately, which is crucial for survival.

Biological Preparedness

Biological preparedness refers to the idea that organisms are naturally predisposed to form certain associations more easily than others because those associations have evolved to enhance survival. This concept suggests that the learning of associations is not entirely arbitrary; instead, it is influenced by an organism's evolutionary history, making some stimulus pairings (such as taste and illness) more readily conditioned than others.

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