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.'

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