BIO320H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Oatmeal, Foodborne Illness
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Garcia found in the 1960s- set the whole ideal and created two groups of people: 1) adaptive specialization of learning, 2) using million of reasons outside of cognitive mechanisms to explain this phenomena. So the new taste makes a strong single one trail association with the coco making them sick. Long-delay (several hours, rather than a few seconds) can elapse between cue and consequence: you can still learn form it 24 hrs later, lead to folk taking more biological view in learning. In summary, darwin was na ve humans are unique and different. The (2) group believed that these differences were a result of perception, motivation and motor ability. And even though the same thing was happening, these animals needed more stimuli because they may not taste as well as the other species or their reaction may be dull. Bookended cognition at the sensory and behavioural level. The food that makes association with the novel taste.
