Rhonda had tartar sauce with her fish one night. The next morning she was nauseated and sick for much of the day. The next time she was offered the chance to go out for fish, she felt queasy and declined. Her queasiness at the thought of fish with tartar sauce was probably due to

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Rhonda's aversion to fish with tartar sauce is an example of conditioned taste aversion, where the pairing of the taste of the sauce with the illness produced a learned aversion to the food. Higher-order conditioning, stimulus substitution, and stimulus generalization are not applicable in this scenario.

Rhonda Had Tartar Sauce with Her Fish One Night