When Salvy and colleagues (2003) gave a distinctive-flavoured food to rats just before they spent time running in a wheel, they would later
A) avoid that food in preference for another without that flavour.
B) select out the reinforcing effects of the distinctive food.
C) begin to run as soon as they smelled that food.
D) cease to run as soon as they smelled that food.
E) only use the running wheel in the presence of that food.

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The rats associated the distinctive-flavoured food with the exercise they were about to do, leading them to avoid that food later, preferring other foods without that flavour. This is an example of a conditioned taste aversion, where an animal associates the taste of a certain food with an unpleasant experience (in this case, the effort or discomfort of exercise) and subsequently avoids it.

When Salvy and Colleagues (2003) Gave a Distinctive-Flavoured Food to Rats