Garcia and his colleagues taught coyotes to avoid sheep by pairing a nausea-inducing drug with freshly killed sheep eaten by the coyotes.This is an example of _____.
A)classical conditioning
B)operant conditioning
C)positive punishment
D)negative punishment

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This is an example of classical conditioning, where an unconditioned stimulus (the nausea-inducing drug) is paired with a neutral stimulus (freshly killed sheep), leading the coyotes to develop a conditioned response (avoidance of sheep) to what becomes a conditioned stimulus (the sheep).

Garcia and His Colleagues Taught Coyotes to Avoid Sheep by Pairing