A Classroom Demonstration of Taste-Aversion Learning.

Best, Michael R.; Batsell, Jr., W. Robert

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Publication Date: 1998

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A Classroom Demonstration of Taste-Aversion Learning.

Best, Michael R.; Batsell, Jr., W. Robert

Teaching of Psychology, v25 n2 p116-18 1998

Describes a demonstration that recreates the central features of taste aversion (learning to avoid distinctively flavored food or drink paired with gastrointestinal illness) research. Rats are allowed to drink a saccharine flavored solution and then are given an injection of sodium chloride. They associate the unpleasant effects with the solution. (MJP)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Demonstrations (Educational), Discrimination Learning, Educational Experiments, Experimental Psychology, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Negative Reinforcement, Psychology, Psychophysiology, Sensory Experience, Sensory Training, Undergraduate Study

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Language: English

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