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A Classroom Demonstration of Taste-Aversion Learning.

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Best, Michael R.; Batsell, Jr., W. Robert – Teaching of Psychology, 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.…

Descriptors: Class Activities, Demonstrations (Educational), Discrimination Learning, Educational Experiments