Joanka went out for dinner last night and within 6 hours of eating her meal she became violently ill.She attributed her sickness to the meal she ate at the restaurant,and most likely,she will avoid ordering that meal for the rest of her life.The fact that she attributed her illness to the meal in the restaurant,and NOT the lighting or background music,suggests that
A) Joanka is fixated on food and as such is more likely to learn associations about food than other stimuli.
B) we habituate more readily to some stimuli than others.
C) we have a biological preparedness to make certain associations more readily than others.
D) the meal was more salient of a stimulus than the lightning or the background music.

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This scenario reflects the concept of biological preparedness, which suggests that humans have an innate tendency to more easily learn certain associations over others. In this case, Joanka's illness is more strongly attributed to the meal because of an evolved mechanism to quickly associate illness with food in order to avoid future harm. This does not necessarily suggest fixation on food as in choice A or salience in choice D. The idea of habituation in choice B is not relevant to this scenario.

Joanka Went Out for Dinner Last Night and Within 6