These associations are called affordances, and psychologists have found that understanding them may prevent accidental poisonings.

这些联系被称为可见性，心理学家发现理解它们可以防止意外中毒。

A major example of this is accidental poisoning, which is the number-five cause of death among children in the US.

一个主要的例子是意外中毒，这是造成美国儿童死亡的第五大原因。

They find that the accidental poisoning of vultures in India led to a dramatic increase in human mortality, with more than 100,000 additional deaths in an average year, as the birds no longer devoured waterway-poisoning carrion.

他们发现，印度秃鹫的意外中毒导致了人类死亡率的急剧上升，平均每年的死亡人数增加了10万以上，因为秃鹫不再吃掉污染水道的腐肉。