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 after they become sick from the bait he leaves. The farmer is attempting to apply the principle of __________ to accomplish this.
A) observational learning
B) latent learning
C) instrumental conditioning
D) conditioned taste aversions

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The farmer is using conditioned taste aversions by using a nausea-inducing drug to make the coyotes associate eating the sheep with feeling sick, therefore, avoiding it in the future.

A Farmer Is Being Troubled by Coyotes Eating His Sheep