A spook house in a local carnival offered its potential patrons free admission if they would allow themselves to be blindfolded and then to eat raw worms.Although they were actually fed cold spaghetti,most of the customers believed they were swallowing real worms.What is the MOST plausible explanation for this finding?
A)The cold spaghetti dulled nerve endings in the taste buds.
B)This particular food failed to depolarize adjacent neurons in the tongue.
C)Food flavour is really a composite of taste,smell,sight,and texture.
D)Sensory receptors in the brain were not activated.

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Food flavor is a composite of taste, smell, sight, and texture. The customers were blindfolded, so they couldn't see the spaghetti and likely didn't pay much attention to the texture, which could have contributed to them believing they were actually eating worms. The psychological power of suggestion and expectation likely also played a role in their perception.

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