Tenia ate out with some friends and had fried oysters.The next morning she was nauseated and sick for much of the day.The next time she saw someone eating fried oysters,she felt queasy and quickly looked away.Her queasiness at the sight of the fried oysters was probably due to __________.
A)higher-order conditioning.
B)a conditioned taste aversion.
C)stimulus substitution.
D)stimulus generalization.

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The queasiness at the sight of fried oysters indicates a conditioned taste aversion, which is a type of classical conditioning in which a person associates a specific food with an illness or negative experience. This leads to an aversion or dislike of the food even when just seeing it. Higher-order conditioning involves pairing a neutral stimulus with a conditioned stimulus, stimulus substitution involves replacing one stimulus with another, and stimulus generalization involves responding to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus.

Tenia Ate Out with Some Friends and Had Fried Oysters