Question

proctoring enabled: chapter 6 - quiz (proctored)16a student ate too many pieces of candy and was sick all night. as a result, the student feels nauseous any time they see or smell that candy. which classical conditioning process occurred in this scenario?multiple choiceaversivegeneralizationrenewalextinction

Explanation:

Aversive conditioning involves pairing a stimulus (here, candy) with an unpleasant response (nausea/sickness) to create a negative association, leading to avoidance of the stimulus. This matches the scenario where the student now feels nauseous at the sight/smell of candy after getting sick from eating too much. Generalization refers to responding to similar stimuli, renewal is a return of a conditioned response after extinction in a new context, and extinction is the weakening of a conditioned response when the unconditioned stimulus is removed—none of these fit the described process.

Answer:

aversive