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

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The farmer is attempting to create a conditioned taste aversion in the coyotes by associating the taste of sheep meat with the unpleasant experience of nausea. This is a specific type of classical conditioning that can occur over a single trial and can be long-lasting. The other options (latent learning, S-O-R learning, insight learning) do not apply to this situation as directly or accurately.

A Farmer Is Being Troubled by Coyotes Eating His Sheep