When the Brelands Tried to Teach Raccoons to Drop a Coin

question 194

Multiple Choice

When the Brelands tried to teach raccoons to drop a coin into a box by using food reinforcement for doing so,the raccoons:

• A)quickly learned this task via shaping through approximations.
• B)spent an inordinate amount of time rubbing the coin between their front paws instead of dropping it into the box.
• C)tended to bury the coin in the ground and then dig it up instead of dropping it into the box.
• D)failed to learn an association between the coin and food.

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