After seeing a new ice cream flavor, Blue Tropical Paradise, advertised on television, I go to the ice cream store to partake in
two scoops of that treat. I become very ill a couple of hours later. According to taste aversion learning, what element of this experience will I learn to avoid?a. Blue Tropical Paradise ice cream b. television commercials
c. any blue-colored food
d. two scoops of ice cream
Taste aversion learning is a type of learned response in which the taste of certain foods that are spoiled and causes an unpleasant reaction when eaten, become associated with illness, and as such, the resistance towards such certain foods is developed. Such foods would be avoided in subsequent times. The element of the experience stated in the question that would be learned to have is “Blue Tropical Paradise ice cream”.
