Clara and Ashley ate dinner at a new restaurant last night. The entire restaurant was decorated in green, and the sound of waterfalls played in the background. Both Clara and Ashley ordered "trapper casserole," which tasted like nothing they had ever eaten before. Four hours after they had eaten they both became extremely ill and were taken to the hospital by ambulance, with the sirens wailing. Based on research conducted by Garcia and his colleagues, you might predict that in the future Clara and Ashley will both show conditioned responses to

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According to Garcia and his colleagues' research, taste aversions can be a conditioned response to foods that have made us sick in the past. Therefore, Clara and Ashley will likely develop an aversion or conditioned response to foods that taste or smell like the trapper casserole they ate before becoming ill. They are unlikely to develop a conditioned response to the color green, the sound of falling water, or ambulance sirens as these stimuli were not directly associated with their illness.

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