An important example of conditioned taste aversions might be ________.
A) chemotherapy patients losing their appetites for food served around the same time they had their treatments.
B) a child tastes soup but burns his tongue, so he decides that he does not want to eat the soup until it cools down.
C) an adult does not like to eat beets because his mother used to talk about how disgusting they are
D) Marie will not eat chicken, beef, or fish because she is a vegetarian

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Conditioned taste aversions refer to learning to avoid a specific food or drink because it was associated with a negative experience, such as nausea or vomiting. In the case of chemotherapy patients, they may develop aversions to certain foods that were eaten around the time of their treatments because they associate those foods with feelings of nausea. This is a classic example of conditioned taste aversions. Choices B, C, and D do not fit the definition of conditioned taste aversions.

An Important Example of Conditioned Taste Aversions Might Be ________