Grayson eats the same bologna sandwich every day for lunch.One day,Grayson gets very ill just after eating the bologna sandwich.Surprisingly,following the recovery from the illness,Grayson is still happy eating bologna sandwiches and continues to have them every day for lunch.Grayson's continued enjoyment of bologna is likely due to
A)latent learning.
B)latent inhibition.
C)conditioned taste aversion.
D)stimulus discrimination.

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Latent inhibition refers to the phenomenon where a familiar stimulus takes longer to acquire meaning (as a signal or conditioned stimulus) than a new stimulus. In Grayson's case, because he was so accustomed to eating bologna sandwiches without adverse effects, the one instance of illness did not lead to a conditioned taste aversion. Instead, his familiarity with the bologna sandwiches likely made it harder for him to develop a negative association with them, hence why he continues to enjoy them.

Grayson Eats the Same Bologna Sandwich Every Day for Lunch