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

Answer 1

Answer:

conditioned taste aversions

Explanation

Answer 2

Answer:

Conditioned taste aversion

Explanation:

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 conditioned taste aversion to accomplish this.

A conditioned taste aversion occurs when certain food is avoided because illness imediately followed as a result of consuming that certain food. The farmer is hoping to convince and condition their minds (the coyotes ) to think that eating sheep causes them to be sick..