When Keller and Marian Breland, Two Psychologists Who Became Animal

question 26

Multiple Choice

When Keller and Marian Breland, two psychologists who became animal trainers, decided that it would be cute to have a pig drop a big wooden coin into a box, they found that:

• A) food was not an effective reinforcer for the pig and so learning didn't occur.
• B) when given edible roots as reinforcers, the pig learned the task in fewer than 10 trials.
• C) the pig was difficult to train because it kept dropping the coin, rooting, and throwing the coin in the air.
• D) the pig showed intrinsic interest in the task and so reinforcement was unnecessary.

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Definitions:

Factitious Disorder

A mental disorder in which a person acts as if they have a physical or mental illness when they are not really sick, often done to assume the sick role and gain medical attention.

Munchausen Syndrome

is a psychiatric disorder where an individual deliberately produces or fabricates symptoms of illness in themselves for attention or sympathy.

Somatic Symptom Disorder

A psychological disorder characterized by an excessive focus on physical symptoms that cause significant distress or impairment.

Briquet's Syndrome

An outdated term for Somatization Disorder, a type of mental disorder characterized by multiple, recurring, and seemingly random physical symptoms not caused by any identifiable medical condition.