It Is Virtually Impossible to Train a Rat to Peck

question 361

Multiple Choice

It is virtually impossible to train a rat to peck a key for food, but very easy for a pigeon to learn this task. Most likely this reflects the operation of

• A)latent learning
• B)preparedness
• C)discrimination
• D)avoidance conditioning
• E)fixed action patterning

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