At dinner Candace eats several familiar foods (pasta, salad, bread) and an unfamiliar food (mussels). Later that evening she suffers abdominal discomfort. She attributes this to the mussels, but later learns that she had developed a sensitivity to gluten. Her misattribution of the problem to the mussels is likely due to ____
a. ?latent inhibition
b. ?discrimination
c. ?habituation
d. ?sensitization
ANSWER:
a
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