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 to not eat the sheep. The farmer is attempting to apply the research of ________ et al. (1989) to accomplish this.
A) Bandura
B) Skinner
C) Tolman
D) Garcia

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Garcia et al. (1989) conducted research on taste aversion learning, which is the learning process where an organism learns to associate a particular taste with an illness or nausea-inducing drug, and subsequently avoids consuming that taste in the future. The farmer is attempting to apply this concept by using the nausea-inducing drug on a sheep to teach the coyotes to avoid eating it, which is an example of taste aversion learning. Therefore, the best choice is D) Garcia.

A Farmer Is Being Troubled by Coyotes Eating His Sheep