Worth 3 Points Reggie likes to eat chicken fingers dipped in honey mustard sauce

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Worth 3 Points Reggie likes to eat chicken fingers dipped in honey mustard sauce. One night, just after eating at Chester's Chicken Shack, he becomes painfully ill with stomach cramps and nausea due to the flu virus that had been percolating in his body the past few days. When his friends invite him back to Chester's in a month, Reggie swiftly declines. What principle of classical conditioning is at work in Reggie's reaction? learned taste discrimination stimulus discrimination conditioned taste aversion stimulus identification 3 attempts remaining

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My answer - Conditioned Taste Aversion.

A conditioned taste aversion occurs when we try to associate certain food with symptoms of toxic or poisonous substance. Such aversions are generally developed after indigestion of food following nausea, or vomiting or sickness. The ability to develop a taste aversion is considered an adaptive trait or survival mechanism that trains the body to avoid poisonous substances (in this case, Chesters chicken) before they can cause further harm.

This is sometimes called the Garcia effect (named after Dr John Garcia, who did similiar experiments on rats in the 1950s) or the Sauce-Bearnaise Syndrome (a term coined by Seligman and Hager). This is a case of Pavlov's Classical conditioning.

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