A researcher finds that rats avoid drinking from bottles in a room in which they had received exposure to radiation that subsequently made them ill. This demonstrates
A)stimulus discrimination.
B)stimulus generalization.
C)conditioned taste aversion.
D)fixed interval schedule of reinforcement.
E)behavior therapy.

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This scenario is an example of conditioned taste aversion, where the rats associate the taste (drinking from bottles) with the negative experience (illness from radiation) and thus avoid it in the future.

A Researcher Finds That Rats Avoid Drinking from Bottles in a Room