Sometimes Behaviour Can't Be Controlled by Conditioning Alone,because Instinctive Behaviours

question 9

Multiple Choice

Sometimes behaviour can't be controlled by conditioning alone,because instinctive behaviours get in the way.For example,researchers have taught raccoons to put coins in a piggybank,but eventually the raccoons don't want to give up the coins after they get them.This biological constraint on learning is called

• A) instinctive drift.
• B) conditioned aversion.
• C) the Garcia effect.
• D) signal relations.

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