Cancer patients experiencing nausea from chemotherapy often develop taste aversions to the foods they had eaten earlier. Based on the research of Garcia and colleagues, researchers developed a technique for minimizing this negative effect; it involved giving a patient unusual foods, such as coconut or root-beer-flavoured candy, at the end of their last meal before undergoing treatment. Such a
procedure attempts to establish the taste of the candy as a(n):
A) unconditioned positive stimulus.
B) conditioned stimulus triggering a pleasant gustatory reaction to chemotherapy.
C) conditioned response to chemotherapy.
D) conditioned stimulus triggering nausea.
D) conditioned stimulus triggering nausea.
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