A Farmer Is Being Troubled by Coyotes Eating His Sheep

question 66

Multiple Choice

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

Understand the hierarchy of needs theory and its application to human motivation.

Recognize the impact of environmental and situational influences on eating behaviors and obesity.

Comprehend the innate and learned aspects of human behaviors and the role of instincts.

Understand and calculate confidence intervals for population means and proportions.

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Definitions:

Interneurons

Structures found only in the central nervous system that link sensory and motor neurons together.

Efferent nerves

Nerves that carry signals away from the central nervous system to effectors like muscles and glands, facilitating action and response.

Afferent nerves

Nerves that carry sensory signals from the body's periphery toward the central nervous system.

Synaptic knob

The bulbous end of a nerve fiber where neurotransmitters are stored before being released into the synaptic cleft to transmit nerve impulses.