Chapter 3 Want a Cookie?

Chapter 3: WANT A COOKIE? Name: _

Every Sunday afternoon, Craig Smith bakes cookies for his family. This particular Sunday afternoon, Craig is baking chocolate chip cookies. The aroma of the freshly baked cookies soon entices everyone into the kitchen, except Maggie, who happens to be in the kitchen already. J. J., his five-year-old daughter, bursts into the kitchen and says, “Those cookies smell great, can I have one now?” Craig, who can’t smell the cookies, says, “Sure, but be careful—they’re hot.” Zach, who has just finished eating a bag of candy, is the first to lay hold of a cookie though. His only remark is: “Dad, these aren’t as chocolatey as usual!” Maggie, who has a cold, complains that the cookies have no taste. She says: “These cookies taste like cardboard!” Craig is wondering if it is really worth doing this every Sunday. Fortunately, his wife, Kim, after sampling her first cookie, says, “Honey, another great batch of cookies!” However, about a minute later, when she eats her second cookie, she thinks to herself that the first one seemed much sweeter.

1. The kind of candy that Zach ate before tasting the chocolate chip cookies was probably:

a. lemon-flavored.

b. caramel-flavored.

c. strawberry-flavored.

d. chocolate-flavored.

2. Maggie was likely to have a difficult time tasting the cookies’ flavor because:

a. her taste buds weren’t sensitive to taste because of her cold.

b. she couldn’t smell the cookies very well.

c. she had cross-adapted to the flavor of the cookies.

d. all of the above.

3. Kim’s second reaction to the cookies was probably due to the fact that:

a. her taste buds had adapted to the flavor of the cookies.

b. her taste buds had cross-adapted to the flavor of the cookies.

c. the cookies had cooled off.

d. she had caught Maggie’s cold.

4. Craig’s problem in smelling the cookies was likely due to:

a. sensory adaptation.

b. cross-adaptation.

c. defective olfactory bulb....