Zaporearekiko abertsioa arratoietan: adiskide pozoituaren efektuan hainbat aldagai kognitibo eta sozialen eragina

Abstract

The behavior that people and animals show in relation to feeding has become a very important object of research in the area of Learning and Conditioning. In fact, choosing adequate diets and rejecting harmful ones is fundamental in order to survive. In this work, we examine the Flavour Aversion Conditioning (FAC) and, more specifically, the phenomenon known as the Poisoned-Partner Effect (PPE) in rats. Giving special importance to that phenomenon, we begin presenting the research that was made in the last decades about the strategies used by animals to avoid toxic diets. Next, we examine the influence that some cognitive and social factors have on the PPE. Finally, we review the most important mechanisms that have been proposed to explain that phenomenon.