Also, taste aversion generally only requires one trial.

The "Garcia Theory" (of taste aversion) is named for him.

One area of interest in hospitals is the blocking effect-especially for conditioned taste aversion.

Conditioned taste aversion has been widely used as a method of pest control and conservation.

Taste aversion has been demonstrated in a wide variety of both captive and free-ranging predators.

His later work showed how taste aversion could be used to train wolves and coyotes, in the wild, not to prey on livestock.

With taste aversion, after one association between sickness and a certain food, the food may thereafter elicit the response.

Taste aversion is fairly common in humans.

Stimulus generalization is another learning phenomenon that can be illustrated by conditioned taste aversion.

Conditioned taste aversion illustrates the argument that in classical conditioning, a response is elicited.

There are taste aversion products for geese, and fogging agents used for birds.

"Our taste aversion experiments didn't work, either."

Generally, taste aversion is caused after ingestion of the food causes nausea, sickness, or vomiting.

Conditioned taste aversion is often used in laboratories to study gustation and learning in rats.

As a result of Garcia's work, conditioned taste aversion has been called the "Garcia Effect."

Behavioral adjustments by conditioned taste aversions may protect animals from over-ingestion of toxic plants.

Three species of plants with different mechanisms of toxicity were tested for their ability to condition a taste aversion in sheep.

Small rodents can also be easily conditioned using taste aversion or odor aversion techniques.

Taste aversions have been developed in wolves, coyotes, and other canids to protect livestock and vulnerable wildlife.

Conditioned Taste Aversion.

With taste aversion, however, the hotdog a person eats at lunch may be associated with the vomiting that person has in the evening.

Taste aversion is a common problem with chemotherapy patients, who become nauseated because of the drug therapy but associate the nausea with consumption of food.

Conditioned taste aversion occurs when a subject associates the taste of a certain food with symptoms caused by a toxic, spoiled, or poisonous substance.

Another criticism is that it is possible that in many cases animals are simply exhibiting Garcia-type learning which involves conditioned taste aversion.

Lithium chloride has been used to develop conditioned taste aversion to olive leaves and shoots in sheep and goats.