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Psychologists have taken advantage of the “Garcia effect” in order to develop humane ways of discouraging predators from preying on livestock. Explain this effect and then describe the classic study in which coyotes developed conditioned aversions to sheep.
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The “Garcia effect” involves conditioned taste aversion.
To prevent coyotes and wolves from preying on sheep, conditioned taste aversion can be used.
For example, sheep meat (CS) is injected with a nausea-inducing chemical (US) and fed to coyotes and wolves causing them to become nauseated (UR).
The smell of sheep now causes nausea (CR) and the coyotes and wolves avoid the sheep.
Not only do they avoid the sheep, they actually appear to fear the sheep.
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