The Garcia Effect
Explain the theoretical significance of the phenomenon known as the Garcia effect.
Does this phenomenon have any practical significance for animal or human behavior?
The Garcia effect or conditioned taste aversion is an example of classical conditioning of an animal's thought to link a taste with a symptom brought on by toxic substance causing nausea. It has had great significance in the understanding of human and animal learning. It shows that learning has a biological link. It shows that animals and humans learn based on their evolutionary roots. A thought that was snubbed by many early psychologists whom thought that learning had no inbuilt predispositions and that humans were a blank slate at birth' (R. E. Cornwell, C. Palme, P. M. Guinther, H. P. Davis, 2005). With nurture rather than nature being the only way a human could be shaped, a view which causes a lot of disagreement in science, coining the phrase nature vs. nurture.'
This essay will talk about the significance of the Garcia effect and how it has had a great impact on modern psychological thinking. The basic of this impact showed a strong biological link to learning.
Looking more specifically the Garcia effect is the conditioning of an animal's behaviour to acquire a specific conditioned response (CR) brought on by a specific conditioned stimulus (CS). For example this method is used to train animals to perform certain tasks when they are given the corresponding stimulus. The Garcia effect has also been utilised to condition animals to act in an uncharacteristic way when the stimulus is presented. An example of this is shown when a mouse is fed a grape, then is immediately after given an injection to make it nauseous. The mouse will start to link the grape to becoming nauseous and therefore will refuse the grape whenever it's presented. Although the nauseous feeling isn't linked to the ingestion of the grape the animal will think that it is.
Practically the Garcia effect can
Does this phenomenon have any practical significance for animal or human behavior?
The Garcia effect or conditioned taste aversion is an example of classical conditioning of an animal's thought to link a taste with a symptom brought on by toxic substance causing nausea. It has had great significance in the understanding of human and animal learning. It shows that learning has a biological link. It shows that animals and humans learn based on their evolutionary roots. A thought that was snubbed by many early psychologists whom thought that learning had no inbuilt predispositions and that humans were a blank slate at birth' (R. E. Cornwell, C. Palme, P. M. Guinther, H. P. Davis, 2005). With nurture rather than nature being the only way a human could be shaped, a view which causes a lot of disagreement in science, coining the phrase nature vs. nurture.'
This essay will talk about the significance of the Garcia effect and how it has had a great impact on modern psychological thinking. The basic of this impact showed a strong biological link to learning.
Looking more specifically the Garcia effect is the conditioning of an animal's behaviour to acquire a specific conditioned response (CR) brought on by a specific conditioned stimulus (CS). For example this method is used to train animals to perform certain tasks when they are given the corresponding stimulus. The Garcia effect has also been utilised to condition animals to act in an uncharacteristic way when the stimulus is presented. An example of this is shown when a mouse is fed a grape, then is immediately after given an injection to make it nauseous. The mouse will start to link the grape to becoming nauseous and therefore will refuse the grape whenever it's presented. Although the nauseous feeling isn't linked to the ingestion of the grape the animal will think that it is.
Practically the Garcia effect can