PSY 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Morning Sickness, Celery, Slot Machine
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Chapter 3: combating the hostile forces of nature: human survival problems pg. Acquiring appropriate food (usually) presents many adaptive problems: mainstream psychology mostly ignores. Maintain energy budget: some of these problems are especially acute for omnivores (like rats and humans) since they must regularly identify new foods and figure out how to efficiently acquire them, selecting food. Omnivores generally enjoy simple carbohydrates, such as honey. Foods with glutamate (an indicator of protein) are often experienced as. Foods with toxins are often experienced as bitter. highly acidic foods (which may indicate spoilage) taste sour. As soon as foods are detected as noxious, they are expelled with spitting, gagging, or vomiting. But many foods that initially seem promising may later prove harmful. Food aversion learning (fal) often helps in such cases. Food aversion learning (fal) is powerful in rats, humans, and other species with broad diets.
