A farmer 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) observational learning
B) latent learnin.
C) instrumental conditioning
D) conditioned food aversion.
E) intermittent reinforcement

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The farmer is trying to use conditioned food aversion by making the coyotes associate the smell and taste of the sheep with nausea-inducing drug, thereby making them avoid eating sheep in the future.

A Farmer Troubled by Coyotes Eating His Sheep