An important example of conditioned taste aversions might be ________.
A)chemotherapy patients losing their appetites for food served around the same time they had their treatments
B)farmers leaving out sheep meat laced with a nauseating substance for coyotes to find in hopes of teaching them not to eat sheep
C)Both of these are examples of taste aversions.
D)Neither of these are examples of conditioned taste aversions.

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Both scenarios described in A and B are examples of conditioned taste aversions. In option A, patients associate the taste of food with the nausea and sickness they experience after chemotherapy, and thus develop aversions to food. In option B, coyotes learn to associate the taste of sheep meat with nausea and avoid eating it in the future.

An Important Example of Conditioned Taste Aversions Might Be ________