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) observational learning
B) latent learning
C) instrumental conditioning
D) taste aversions

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The farmer is attempting to use taste aversions, which is a type of classical conditioning, to associate eating the sheep with feeling sick from the drug. This will hopefully discourage the coyotes from eating the sheep in the future.

A Farmer Is Being Troubled by Coyotes Eating His Sheep