Question

Conditioned taste aversions demonstrate: that the interval between the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned stimulus must be only a few seconds, or classical conditioning will not occur. the power of punishment to suppress behavior. that certain stimuli are easier to associate than others. that any neutral stimulus is capable of becoming a conditioned stimulus.

Answer 1

The correct answer is that certain stimuli are easier to associate than others because of biological preparedness

Conditioned taste aversion is a conditioned response in which the person /  animal establishes an association" between having  ingested a food and feel sick posteriorly.  The association results from a single  experience (unpleasant) and lasts the life  all.

Aversion occurs even if the person knows that the disease was  due to a virus, nothing having to do with food. No  matter, the body rushes to the conclusion of that the food  it is bad, and this becomes repulsive  from then on.

The heart (or the stomach) overcomes the brain, and food  innocent disgusts us. This illustrates how the aversion to flavors  involves automatic, involuntary and primitive processes of our brain.