Question

A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his sheep. in an attempt to solve the problem, he kills a sheep and laces its body with a nausea-inducing drug. he leaves the sheep out where he knows the coyotes roam. he hopes they will learn not to eat the sheep. the farmer is attempting to apply the principle of ________ to accomplish this.
a. latent learning
b. s-o-r learning
c. conditioned taste aversions
d. insight learning

Answer 1

The farmer is attempting to apply the principle of conditioned taste aversions to accomplish his objectives. Conditioned taste aversion occurs when an animal associates the taste of a certain food with symptoms caused by a toxic, spoiled, or poisonous substance. Generally, taste aversion is developed after ingestion of food that causes nausea, sickness, or vomiting.Tate aversions is an important principle that help us better understand animals and people tend to form one pairing associations between a certain stimuli, unlike other classical conditioning examples, for it one eats a food and becomes ill, he or she is predisposed to avoid the substance.