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 research of __________ to accomplish this.
A) Bandura
B) Skinner
C) Tolman
D) Garcia

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The farmer is attempting to apply the research of Garcia, who discovered that animals can easily learn to associate nausea with certain tastes or smells, and thereafter avoid them. This type of learning is called taste aversion or Garcia effect.

A Farmer Is Being Troubled by Coyotes Eating His Sheep