Question

Charity used to really enjoy potato salad, so at a family reunion, she ate a large helping. unfortunately, the potato salad had not been kept cold, and charity became quite ill after eating it. now she finds that even the sight of potatoes in the grocery store can make her feel sick to her stomach. in this example, the sick feeling charity experiences when she sees potatoes in the grocery store is

Answer 1

Based on the scenario above, the way Charity feels sick at the sight of the potatoes was because of the conditioned response. A conditioned response occurs when an individual has established an automatic response after the individual has been associated with an ordinary neutral stimulus. In which she feels sick at the sight of the potatoes because of the fact that she became sick after eating the cold potatoes that she had before.