taste aversion

collocation in English

meaningsoftasteandaversion

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taste
noun
uk
/teɪst/us
/teɪst/
the flavour of something, or the ability of a person or animal to recognize ...
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aversion
noun[C usually singular]
uk
/əˈvɜː.ʃən/us
/əˈvɝː.ʒən/
(a person or thing that causes) a feeling of strong dislike or of not wishing to ...
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(Definition oftasteandaversionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thus, at least some individual lizards may be able to overcome their initialtasteaversion.
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Current projects include the development of electric fencing, repellents and conditionedtasteaversion, the latter involving tricking an animal pest into associating food with illness.
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Ongoing work with wild mammals includes the potential use of repellents and conditionedtasteaversion as non-lethal means of resolving conflicts between wildlife and other interests.
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Small rodents can also be easily conditioned usingtasteaversionor odor aversion techniques.
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Conditionedtasteaversionis often used in laboratories to study gustation and learning in rats.
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Generally,tasteaversionis caused after ingestion of the food causes nausea, sickness, or vomiting.
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Withtasteaversion, however, the hotdog a person eats at lunch may be associated with the vomiting that person has in the evening.
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His later work showed howtasteaversioncould be used to train wolves and coyotes, in the wild, not to prey on livestock.
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Conditionedtasteaversionoccurs when a subject associates the taste of a certain food with symptoms caused by a toxic, spoiled, or poisonous substance.
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There aretasteaversionproducts for geese, and fogging agents used for birds.
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Also,tasteaversiongenerally only requires one trial.
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Conditionedtasteaversionillustrates the argument that in classical conditioning, a response is elicited.
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Taste avoidance andtasteaversioncan at times go hand in hand, but they can not be looked at or be defined the same way.
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Even something as obvious as riding a roller coaster (causing nausea) after eating the sushi will influence the development oftasteaversionto sushi.
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It is a distrust or a dislike of products from a particular brand on the basis of past experiences with that brand and its products, similar totasteaversion.
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Several procedures to block respondent conditioning such as blocking and overshadowing are sometimes used in behavioral medicine to prevent conditionedtasteaversionfor patients with chemotherapy treatments.
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Behavioral adjustments by conditioned taste aversions may protect animals from over-ingestion of toxic plants.
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The concept of preparedness has also been used to explain why taste aversions are learned so quickly and efficiently compared with other kinds of classical conditioning.
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These findings indicate that rats with area postrema lesions do not acquire the normal conditioned taste aversions when lithium chloride is used as the unconditioned stimulus.
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