Suppose you taught coyotes to avoid sheep by pairing a nausea-inducing drug with freshly killed sheep eaten by the coyotes. If you were able to save your flock of sheep using this method, you would probably want to give credit to the researchers who studied taste aversion, ________.
A) Garcia and Koelling
B) Watson and Rayner
C) Skinner and Thorndike
D) Bandura and Pavlov

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Garcia and Koelling are the researchers known for their work on taste aversion, which involves learning to avoid a food that causes illness by associating the taste of the food with the illness. This principle is applied in the scenario described.

Suppose You Taught Coyotes to Avoid Sheep by Pairing a Nausea-Inducing