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: C
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a. radiant; mechanical b. mechanical; chemical c. thermal; radiant d. radiant; thermal e. visual; acoustic
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A) ?True. B) ?False.