CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Studies on conditioned taste aversion that involved irradiating rats were conducted in the 1950s by Dr. John Garcia, leading to it sometimes being called the Garcia effect. Conditioned taste aversion can occur when sickness is merely coincidental to, and not caused by, the substance consumed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Garcia and his colleagues showed that taste aversions to the sweetener saccharin created after just one session, when animals associated the taste with becoming ill from one of two doses of radiation, persisted for more than two months.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Garcia (born June 12, 1917) is an American Psychologist, most known for his research on taste aversion learning. Garcia studied at the University of California-Berkeley, where he received his A.B., M.A., and Ph. D. degrees in 1955 at the age of 38.

Detailed explanation-4: -Psychologists Study Taste Aversion Psychologists John Garcia and Robert Koelling studied taste aversion in 1966 while researching the effects of radiation on laboratory rats. Garcia and Koelling noticed the laboratory rats started to avoid drinking the water from plastic bottles in the radiation chambers.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the mid 1950s, John Garcia and his colleagues at the Radiological Defense Laboratory at Hunters Point in San Francisco assessed the effects of ionizing radiation on a myriad of behaviors in the laboratory rat.