Sienna learned that many vegetables tend to be green in color. When she later learned in school that vegetables are healthy, she inferred that foods that are green are healthy. That she made this inference is an example of:
A) acquired equivalence.
B) sensory preconditioning.
C) discrimination training.
D) negative patterning.

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Sienna's inference that green foods are healthy based on her learning that vegetables are green and healthy is an example of sensory preconditioning. This occurs when one stimulus is conditioned as a predictor of another prior to the second stimulus being paired with an unconditioned stimulus, leading to an association between the two conditioned stimuli.

Sienna Learned That Many Vegetables Tend to Be Green in Color