The research of John Garcia and Robert Koelling on taste aversion is noteworthy in the understanding of learning because it demonstrated that
a. organisms are biologically prepared to learn certain associations.
b. complex behaviors may be acquired by shaping of successive approximations.
c. a more probable activity can be used to reinforce a less probable one.
d. the associationist principles of learning are common to all organisms.
Answer: a. organisms are biologically prepared to learn certain associations.
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