If you get violently ill a couple of hours after eating contaminated food,you will probably develop an aversion to the taste of that food but not to the sight of the restaurant where you ate or to the sound of music you heard there.This best illustrates that associative learning is constrained by
A) intrinsic motivation.
B) biological predispositions.
C) modeling.
D) cognitive maps.

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This scenario exemplifies biological predispositions, meaning certain associations are easier to learn than others because of an organism's natural tendencies or predispositions. In this case, a person's natural tendency to avoid eating something that caused illness is stronger than their tendency to associate the illness with the restaurant or music. This demonstrates that associative learning is constrained by biological predispositions.

If You Get Violently Ill a Couple of Hours After