Question

148. Classical conditioning would best be suited to answer which of the

following questions?
(A) Why do people repeat behaviors when they are followed by
something good?
(B) Why do children know a lot about driving a car before their fi rst time
behind the wheel?
(C) Why do people associate certain foods with nausea?
(D) Why are some animals difficult to train to perform certain kinds of
behaviors?
(E) Why do people imitate behaviors they see someone else get
punished for?

Answer 1

Classical conditioning is relevant for understanding why people might associate certain foods with nausea, as they have learned to link the food (conditioned stimulus) with the experience of nausea (conditioned response) in a way similar to Pavlovian experiments.

Step-by-step explanation:

Classical conditioning would best be suited to answer the question of why people associate certain foods with nausea. This is because classical conditioning involves learning to associate one stimulus with another, typically an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) that evokes an unconditioned response (UCR) with a neutral stimulus that then becomes a conditioned stimulus (CS) eliciting a conditioned response (CR). If a person eats a certain food and then becomes nauseous, the taste or sight of the food (CS) may later trigger the feeling of nausea (CR) even without the sickness present. This is a learned association, much like Pavlov's experiments with dogs where a bell (CS) was paired with the presentation of food (UCS) and the dog's salivation (UCR) until the bell alone caused the dog to salivate (CR).