A dog feels a severe pain in its front paws while chewing on a biscuit and lying on its new bed. Given the results of the Garcia and Koelling experiment, which of the following stimuli would the dog most likely begin to fear?
A) Food that tastes like the biscuit
B) Its new bed
C) Its owner
D) The sound of the television coming from the other room

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The Garcia and Koelling experiment demonstrated that animals associate certain types of stimuli with specific outcomes more readily than others. In this case, the dog is likely to associate the pain in its front paws with the context or environment in which the pain occurred, which is its new bed, rather than the taste of the food, its owner, or unrelated sounds.

A Dog Feels a Severe Pain in Its Front Paws