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ERIC Number: EJ564652
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0098-6283
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
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Taste Discrimination