Your parakeet eats some cooked spaghetti. Later, the parakeet gets ill. Based on evidence about the specificity of conditioned taste aversions, which of the following would your bird find most aversive in future?

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Conditioned taste aversions are highly specific, meaning that the parakeet is most likely to avoid the taste or smell of spaghetti in the future, since it was what was directly associated with the illness. The other options, such as the location, sight of the pasta pot, or person who fed the bird, were not directly associated with the illness and therefore would not have the same aversive effect.

Your Parakeet Eats Some Cooked Spaghetti