Gavan had a wonderful dinner last night. He is so full in the morning that he can't imagine eating. When he gets to his early morning meeting he finds that pastries are available. Though everyone else is eating and the pastries look and smell delicious, Gavan is too full to try one. Yet a few minutes later he finds that he is quite hungry. The best explanation for Gavan's hunger would come from:
A) a failure of satiety cues
B) poor self-regulation
C) classical conditioning
D) observational learning

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Classical conditioning can explain Gavan's hunger because the sight and smell of the pastries, which are conditioned stimuli, trigger a conditioned response of hunger, even though he was initially too full to eat.

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