English Explanatory Dictionary

Garcia effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The phenomenon by which an animal acquires an aversion to the taste of a food that was paired with an aversive stimulus.

Word forms

Garcia effect the Garcia effect

Etymology

Named after John Garcia, who studied the effect in rats in the 1950s.

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