At dinner Candace eats several familiar foods (pasta, salad, bread)and an unfamiliar food (mussels). Later that evening she suffers abdominal discomfort. She attributes this to the mussels, but later learns that she had developed a sensitivity to gluten. Her misattribution of the problem to the mussels is likely due to ____.

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Latent inhibition refers to the phenomenon where familiar stimuli take longer to acquire meaning (such as being associated with a negative outcome) compared to unfamiliar stimuli. Candace's familiarity with pasta, salad, and bread makes her less likely to associate them with her discomfort, leading her to incorrectly attribute it to the unfamiliar mussels.

At Dinner Candace Eats Several Familiar Foods (Pasta, Salad, Bread)and