Susan believes that the headaches she experiences every morning in Professor Jones's Art class are due to the food she eats for breakfast, and not the presence of Professor Jones. This type of associative process illustrates:

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Prepared learning refers to the idea that certain associations between stimuli and responses are easier to form than others, due to evolutionary factors or past experiences. In this case, Susan may have learned to associate the food she eats for breakfast with the headaches she experiences in Professor Jones's Art class, because of past experiences in which the same food did not cause headaches in other contexts. This type of learning is said to be "prepared" because it is easier and more likely to occur than other types of learning, such as blocking or overshadowing, which require additional conditions or stimuli.

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