Jon eats a hamburger that is contaminated with nasty bacteria.While eating the burger,Jon is watching an episode of the television show Small Wonder.Jon soon develops an aversion to hamburgers,but not to the television program,primarily because of ____.
A) higher-order conditioning
B) stimulus generalization
C) biopreparedness
D) reconditioning

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Biopreparedness explains Jon's aversion to hamburgers and not the television program because humans are evolutionarily predisposed to associate certain stimuli (like food) with sickness more readily than others (like visual stimuli from a TV show).

Jon Eats a Hamburger That Is Contaminated with Nasty Bacteria