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

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