In Garcia and Koelling's taste-aversion study, why were the rats unable to associate a bright noisy stimulus with feeling ill?

A The rats were so distracted or frightened by the bright noisy stimulus that they did not notice they were ill.

B The rats relied more on taste and smell than on vision and hearing to identify food.

C The rats enjoyed the bright noisy stimulus enough to tolerate their illness.

D The rats lacked the cognitive ability to do so.

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Yael Boyer

18 May, 01:37

In Garcia and Koelling's taste-aversion study, why were the rats unable to associate a bright noisy stimulus with feeling ill?

A The rats were so distracted or frightened by the bright noisy stimulus that they did not notice they were ill.

B The rats relied more on taste and smell than on vision and hearing to identify food.

C The rats enjoyed the bright noisy stimulus enough to tolerate their illness.

D The rats lacked the cognitive ability to do so.

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Ty Ballard · Answer 1

The rats relied more on taste and smell than on vision and hearing to identify food.

Explanation:

John Garcia and Robert Koelling's taste-aversion study focused on the learned responses to eating any type of spoiled or toxic food. Garcia and Koelling studied this in rats in 1966 and saw that the rats were unable to associate a bright noisy stimulus with feeling ill because the rats relied more on taste and smell than on vision and hearing to identify food.