In a Series of Conditioning Experiments, a Psychologist Discovered That

Multiple Choice

In a series of conditioning experiments, a psychologist discovered that a rat readily made an association between the taste of flavored water and illness, but did not make an association between the taste of flavored water and a painful shock. The phenomenon called _____ best explains this example.

A) latent learning
B) stimulus discrimination
C) biological preparedness
D) instinctive drift