At dinner Ming Yan eats several familiar foods (pasta, salad, bread) and an unfamiliar food (deep fried cheese curds). Later that evening she suffers abdominal discomfort. She attributes this to the deep fried cheese curds, but later learns that she had developed a sensitivity to gluten. Her misattribution of the problem to the deep fried cheese curds is likely due to
A) latent inhibition
B) discrimination
C) habituation
D) sensitization
Answer: A) latent inhibition
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